| The other day I chanced to meet a soldier friend of mine,
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| He’d been in camp for sev’ral weeks and he was looking fine;
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| His muscles had developed and his cheeks were rosy red,
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| I asked him how he liked the life, and this is what he said:
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| CHORUS 1:
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| «Oh! |
| how I hate to get up in the morning,
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| Oh! |
| how I’d love to remain in bed;
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| For the hardest blow of all, is to hear the bugler call;
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| You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up this morning!
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| Some day I’m going to murder the bugler,
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| Some day they’re going to find him dead;
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| I’ll amputate his reveille, and step upon it heavily,
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| And spend the rest of my life in bed.»
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| CHORUS 2:
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| «Oh! |
| how I hate to get up in the morning,
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| Oh! |
| how I’d love to remain in bed;
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| For the hardest blow of all, is to hear the bugler call;
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| You’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up, you’ve got to get up this morning!
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| Oh! |
| boy the minute the battle is over,
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| Oh! |
| boy the minute the foe is dead;
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| I’ll put my uniform away, and move to Philadelphia,
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| And spend the rest of my life in bed.»
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| A bugler in the army is the luckiest of men,
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| He wakes the boys at five and then goes back to bed again;
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| He doesn’t have to blow again until the afternoon,
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| If ev’ry thing goes well with me I’ll be a bugler soon.
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| (CHORUS 1)
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| (CHORUS 2) |