G I Jive lyrics

Artist  : Johnny Mercer 
Song : G I Jive



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G. I. Jive

- Artist: Johnny Mercer as sung
on "Remember the Forties-Boogie Woogie
Bugle
Boy: Music Of the War Years-1943-44"
- Capitol
CDL 57268
- charted by Mercer at # 11 in
1944
- competing version by Louis Jordan hit #
1
- Words and Music by Johnny
Mercer

This is the G. I. Jive
Man
alive
It starts with the bugler blowin'
reveille over your bed when you arrive
Jack,
that's the G. I. Jive

Roodley-toot
Jump
in your suit
Make a
salute
Boot!!

After you wash and
dress
More or less
You go get your
breakfast in a beautiful little caf they call
"The Mess"
Jack, when you
convalesce

Outta your seat
Into the
street
Make with the feet
Reet!!

If
you're a P-V-T, your duty
Is to salute to
L-I-E-U-T
But if you brush the
L-I-E-U-T
The M-P makes you K-P on the
Q-T

This is the G. I. Jive
Man
alive
They give you a private tank that
features a little device called "fluid
drive"
Jack, after you revive

Chuck all
your junk
Back in the trunk
Fall on your
bunk
Clunk!!



This is the G. I. Jive
Man
alive
They give you a private tank that
features a little device called "fluid
drive"
Jack, if you still survive

Chuck
all your junk
Back in the trunk
Fall on your
bunk
Clunk!!

Soon you're countin'
jeeps
But before you count to five
Seems
you're right back diggin' that G. I.
Jive


Transcribed by Robin
Hood

These lyrics were transcribed from
the specific recording mentioned above
and do
not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other
recordings, sheet
music, songbooks or lyrics
printed on album jackets.