Grafted Into the Army

A Civil War song from 1862
Words and music by Henry Clay Work

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:

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Accompaniment by Werner Tomaschewski:

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Lyrics

1. Our Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent,
   They have grafted him into the army;
   He finally puckered up courage and went,
   When they grafted him into the army.
   I told them the child was too young, alas!
   At the captains forequarters, they said he would pass–
   They’d train him up well in the Infantry class–
   So they grafted him into the army.

Chorus
Oh, Jimmy, farewell!
Your brothers fell
Way down in Alabarmy;
I though they would spare a lone widder’s heir,
But they grafted him into the army.

2. Drest up in his unicorn, dear little chap;
   They have grafted him into the army;
   It seems but a day since he sot in my lap,
   But they grafted him into the army.
   And these are the trousies he used to wear–
   Them very same buttons–the patch and the tear–
   But Uncle Sam gave him a bran new pair
   When they grafted him into the army
3. Now in my provisions I see him revealed–
   They have grafted him into the army;
   A picket beside the contented field,
   they have grafted him into the army.
   He looks kinder sickish–begins to cry–
   A big volunteer standing right in his eye!
   Oh what if the ducky should up and die
   Now they’ve grafted him into the army

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Sung here by Vancha March: