A popular song from 1905.
Interpolated into the 1902 musical “The Wizard of Oz.”
Words by Vincent Bryan.
Music by Chas. Zimmerman.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Just bring along the ambulance
And call the Red Cross nurse
Then ring the undertaker up
And make him bring a hearse
Have all the surgeons ready there
For they’ll have work today
Oh, can’t you see the football teams
Are lining up to play?
Chorus
Football, Football
That’s the game for me
Break his hip, hip! hip hurrah
Kick him in the knee
Soak him on the five yard line
We must have ’em lame
Football, Football
It’s a gentle game
- Now watch the interlocutor
The good old centre rush
He’ll make that little end man there
Look like a plate of mush
He’s jumping on that thin man’s face
He don’t care how it feels
It doesn’t seem to hurt his feet
He must have rubber heels
Sung here by Vancha March: