A popular song from 1927
Words and music by Haven Gillespie and Richard A. Whiting
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Johnny get your gun and sword and pistol
And fall in line
Bring your kiddie cars and hobby horses
It’s marchin’ time
Listen to the bugle playin’ “Yankee Doodle”
Hear the melody
Hep! Hep! Keep step
With the sweet tooth infantry
Chorus
Haer the Zing, and the Zang
And the Bing, and the Bang
Of the Big Tin Pan Parade
Hear the Zoom, and the Boom
As they march thru’ the room
On the Big Tin Pan Parade
You never heard such tunes
As they pound on the pans
With the table spoons
Off they march to the cookies and plums
They’ll soon have a pain
In their Tummy-Tum-Tums
The captain, or course
Has a broom for a horse
As he leads them off to war
Little feet will retreat
If they meet with defeat
When they charge the kitchen door
It’s Waterloo for Napoleon
If he tracks across the linoleum
Clear the way, Hip-Hooray
For the Big Tin Pan Parade
- See the curly headed, blue-eyed captain
He knows his game
Hear the bold commander giving orders
“Get ready, aim”
Listen to the rattles, goin’ into battle
What a victory
Hey! Hey! Hoo-ray
For the sweet tooth infantry
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: