a 1918 World War I song
words by Harold Atteridge
music by Jean Schwartz and Al Jolson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Do you remember Kaiser Bill about a year ago
We told your old friend Bernstorff that he’d better pack and go
You laughed and said America possessed no fighting stuff
Until our fighting Yankee boys walked in and called your bluff
That Monte Christo idea will not do
If you think that the world belongs to you
Chorus
Tell that to the Marines
Those Deviling Hounds who know what fighting means
You are going to lick the world you say you will
If you mean Uncle Sam, now listen Kaiser Bill
Tell that to the Marines
The first to fight on all the fighting scenes
If you think you’ll sink our new boats
With your damned old U. Boats
Tell that to the Marines
2. The line of Hinderburg’s would never break, you made a vow
If must be made of rubber, Bill the way it’s bending now
Those Krupp works that you bragged about you’ll rave of them no more
We’ll change them to the Bankrupt works when we end up this war
Tho’ Kaiser Bill at warfare are new
If you think now the Yankee drive is through
Chorus
Tell that to the Marines
Those Deviling Hounds who know what fighting means
We are going to have six million men in line
Kaiser Bill if you don’t think they will cross the Rhine
Tell that to the Marines
The first to fight on all the fighting scenes
If you think the Yanks won’t whirl in
Right straight into Berlin
Tell that to the Marines
Sung here by Fred Feild: