A World War One song from 1918
Words by Arthur Guy Empey
Music by Chas. R. McCarron and Carey Morgan
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- At a dock a transport was rocking
Every chap from his cap to his stocking
Dressed to “Kill”
To kill old Kaiser Bill
On the pier a dear little girlie
With her tear-dimmed eyes
Time to go, whistles blow
“Au Revoir” her Sweetheart cries
Chorus
I’m coming back some day
When the fray is over my darling
I know you’ll be true, dear
So I’ll never be blue, dear
Across the foam in No-Man’s land
I’ll soon be fighting
But I know your lips are
No man’s land but mine
- As the boat sailed out thro’ the channel
With two flags she had made out of flannel
From the pier
She wig-wagged “Goodbye, dear”
Pretty soon he wig-wagged and answer
And the code she read
From her boy, ship ahoy
This is what the wig-wag said
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein.