<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Sure, It's Fun!</h1><p class="epigraph"></p><p class="line">What fun to be a soldier!</p><p>-- Everykid.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Sure</span>, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun,</p><p class="line">Upon an iron shoulder-blade to tote a feather gun;</p><p class="line">To hike with other brave galoots in easy-going army-boots;</p><p class="line">To pack along a one-ounce sack, the commissary on your track;</p><p class="line">To tramp, tramp, tramp, to a right-and-ready camp!</p><p class="line">Fun? -- Sure, it's fun, just the finest ever, son!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Yes, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun,</p><p class="line">To loaf along a level road beneath a cloudless sun</p><p class="line">Or over fields of golden grain, kept cool by puffs of wind and rain;</p><p class="line">Then richly, more-than-fully, fed, to stretch upon a downy bed</p><p class="line">And sleep, sleep, sleep, while the stay-at-homes weep!</p><p class="line">Fun? -- Sure, it's fun, just the finest ever, son!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Oh, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun,</p><p class="line">To catch the silly enemy and get 'em on the run;</p><p class="line">To here and there blow off a head with just a bit of chuckling lead;</p><p class="line">To bayonet a foolish bloke at hide-and-seek in trench and smoke;</p><p class="line">To shoot, shoot, shoot, till they've got no 1egs to scoot!</p><p class="line">Fun? -- Sure, it's fun, just the finest ever, son!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">God, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun</p><p class="line">To lie out still and easy when your day's sport's done;</p><p class="line">With not a thing to worry for, nor anything to hurry for;</p><p class="line">Not hungry, thirsty, tired, but a hero much-admired;</p><p class="line">Just dead, dead, dead, like Jack and Bill and Fred!</p><p class="line">Fun? -- Sure, it's fun, just the finest ever, son!</p></div><p class="byline">-- Richard Butler Glaenzer.</p></body></html> · Great War