Dedicated to Lieut. Joseph Foley, U. S. A.
Words and Music by (Kid) Howard Carr,
Harry Russell and Jimmy Havens
Published 1918: Arcade Music Pub. Co., 32 S. Clark St., Chicago, IL
MIDI file courtesy Benjamin
Tubb.
Verse: 1
If you read your history, why it will show
That we have always held our own with any kind of foe.
We�ve always bro�t the bacon home, no matter what they done,
But we don�t want the bacon now,
We�re out to get the Hun.
CHORUS 1:
We don�t want the bacon, we don�t want the bacon,
What we want is a piece of the Rhine.
We�ll feed �Bill the Kaiser� with our Allied appetizer.
We�ll have a wonderful time.
Old Wilhelm Der Gross will shout �Vas is Los?�
The Hindenburg line will sure look like a dime;
We don�t want the bacon, we don�t want the bacon,
What we want is a piece of the Rhine.
Verse 2:
When this trouble started they said we did not have a chance.
They could not figure out how we could get our men to France.
But we defied the U-boats, for our motto is to win,
We�ve got them into France right now,
They�re headed for Ber-lin.
CHORUS 2:
We don�t want the bacon, we don�t want the bacon,
What we want is a piece of the Rhine.
We�ll crown �Bill the Kaiser� with a bottle of Budweiser.
We�ll have a wonderful time.
We�ll defeat the subm�rine, their Hindenberg machine;
There won�t be any stop, when we go over the top;
We don�t want the bacon, we don�t want the bacon,
What we want is a piece of the Rhine.
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