THE GENERAL’S FAST ASLEEP


(Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr)


BBC Dance Orchestra, Dir. Henry Hall
V. Dan Donovan
Recorded 7th October 1935

Also recorded bby:
Jay Wilbur & His Band, V. Vera Lynn
Heinz Wehner Orchestra



Right across the nursery floor
Gallant soldiers dressed for war
Drummer boys, and buglers grand
Waiting the word of command
Spick and span they stand
But never a word of command

You won’t see any big parade
There won’t be any bugle played
Sad to say no war today
‘Cos the general’s fast asleep

Soldiers bold in a mighty row
They’ve been told they're to fight the foe
Sad to say no war today
‘Cos the general’s fast asleep

The colonel’s mad, and the major blue
The captain’s sad and the sergeant too
Guess this war will have to keep
It’s enough to make an army weep

Look oh look at his curly head
Time to take him away to bed
Sad to say no war today
‘Cos the general’s fast asleep.


(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - August 2013)