The chorus to "Gertie from Bizerte"—otherwise known as the only piece of the song clean enough to be sung onscreen by the U.S. Army Rangers in The Canterville Ghost (1944), where I learned it—has been stuck in my head since I got up at ten this morning. The one upside: I found a Life article from 1943 field-collecting American soldiers' songs, which I didn't realize anyone was doing at the time. The downside: even the pair of floppy drives playing the Imperial March can't drive it out. Unfortunately, the text of Patrick Hamilton's Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse (1953) seems to contain no catchy songs whatsoever.
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- 1: On the edge and off the avenue
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