(Till They Go Right Thru) a 1918 World War One song.
words and music by Jack Caddigan and Chick Story
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
1. Everywhere american hearts are feeling gay
Just because America’s started on her way
Yankees long and thin, hiking to Berlin
Stopping the slaughter over the water
There’s the dickens to pay
Chorus
Oh, you can’t stop the Yankees till they go right thru
What a job they’ll do when they do go thru
They’ll make the Kaiser look like thirty dirty cents
The can lick a million of his rotten regiments
Oh, you can’t stop the Yankees till they go right thru
And for them that’s nothing new
They’re a bunch of business makers
For the German undertakers
Oh, you never can stop the Yankees until they’re thru
2. Everywhere America’s son’s are going strong
They are only helping the French to right a wrong
Having lots of fun, picking off the Hun
Driving the cattle out of the battle
Poor old Germany’s done
Chorus
Oh, you can’t stop the Yankees till they go right thru
What a job they’ll do when they do go thru
They’ll take the lily that the Frenchmen tried to save
You’ll find it blooming on the blooming Kaiser’s grave
Oh, you can’t stop the Yankees till they go right thru
And for them that’s nothing new
Tho’ the Germans may be tricky
They are full of Bullshevicki
And they never can stop the Yankees until they’re thru
Chorus
Oh, you can’t stop the Yankees till they go right thru
What a job they’ll do when they do go thru
They’ll give the Germans what they tried to give to France
They’ll kick the bottom out of little Willie’s pants
Oh, you can’t stop the Yankees till they go right thru
And for them that’s nothing new
And that baby killing sinner
Will stand up to eat his dinner
Oh, you never can stop the Yankees until they’re thru
Sung here by Fred Feild: