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THE MANNING POOL
[Anonymous]
Your country needs you, the posters cry
Join the Air Force and learn to fly.
So you came here and so did I
To the Manning Pool.
Near bursting was my heart with pride
When I passed through these portals wide
Till “Hyah Sucker” the boys all cried
In the Manning Pool.
And when at night your clothes you doffed
In your bed you climb so warm and soft
One sleeps down and another aloft
In the Manning Pool.
At stores for Arm-Birds, a chap he bags
But I won’t stand there tiring my legs,
Because I found two inside my eggs,
In the Manning Pool.
They told us the allowances were set
Thirty five a month your wife will get,
But she hasn’t got a ruddy cent as yet,
From the Manning Pool.
So at home my radio had to be sold
To buy some coal, ‘cos the kids were cold,
Just because their dads an Airman bold
In the Manning Pool.
On a chunk of steel we file all day
And dream of the day when we’ll draw some pay,
But on pay parade we get sweet B.A.,
At the Manning Pool.
Answer your name the corporal shrieks
But one lad, no, he never speaks.
He’s a hobo who’s lived here free for weeks
In the Manning Pool.
To drum some discipline into your skull
To the Bull Pen-with yells, the air is full,
Where instead of showing, they shoot the bull,
In the Manning Pool.
Some lads are short and some are tall
Some thin, some fat, but one and all
Are that fed up, they nearly bawl.
In the Manning Pool.
For we drill, and sweep and scrounge all day
And then at night we spend our pay
In the riotous living at the Y.M.C.A.
In the Manning Pool.
In uniform other boys look grand
But I’ll get one for I’ll be damned
If I don’t parade like Sally Rand
In the Manning Pool.
So just carry on, and arouse and swear
And when you’re blue, go out on a tear
For the folks at home are proud you’re here,
In the Manning Pool.
But here’s the last thing I will tell
We’ll do our job and do it well
For some day our lads will bomb Hitler to Hell
When we leave the Manning Pool
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