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Corabelle

Posted 2008-04-01 4:06 PM (#14529)

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Location: Rapid City, SD

Subject: Does anyone remember a song -

- of which one line went something like, "We had no gravy... all the gravy was in the Navy?" (Very loose interpretation.) I think this was a WWII song.

I was reading a magazine while sitting in a doctor's waiting room this morning, and these words popped up at me. The beginning words of the song were very familiar, but since it's been several hours since I left the clinic, all but the words above, have also left me.

Cora

Edited by Corabelle 2008-04-01 4:10 PM

Park Dallis

Posted 2008-04-01 4:21 PM (#14530 - in reply to #14529)

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Subject: RE: Does anyone remember a song -

The Navy gets the gravy but the army gets the beans.

THE NAVY GETS THE GRAVY, BUT THE ARMY GETS THE BEANS

From the film "At War With The Army" (1951)

(Jerry Livingston / Mack David)

Jerry Lewis

In the Navy, they get steak, caviar and whipped cream cake
They have fancy cooks who know what cooking means
In the Army, we get mess, and it really is a mess
Oh, the Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the beans
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans)

Send a salami, to your boy in the Army
Yes, the Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the beans
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans
beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans)
Nothing but beans

Navy service is ideal, printed menus ev'ry meal
And they decorate your plate with parsley greens
In the Army, we get chow that you wouldn't feed a Chow
Oh, the Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans)
Beautiful beans, gorgeous beans, succulent beans

Send a baloney, `cause I'm skinny and boney
Yes, the Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans
nothing but beans)
Loving those beans, loving those beans, liking those beans
Know what I mean, mammy, I love you
Nothing but beans
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans)

Oh, I was born at the age of three, as might' as I could be
Sure it takes a great mentality to dish out all the
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans)

Oh, it seems bell bottomed pants are conducive to romance
They are wined and dined and loved by movie queens
But you wear a khaki frame and you get a wacky dame
Oh, the Navy gets the, the Army gets the
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans)

I hit the jackpot, but it's always a crackpot
Yes, the Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the beans
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans)

Did you know that the Navy gets all of the gravy
Did you know that the Army gets all of the beans
Oh, a soldier's a coward if he doesn't lick the platter clean
Oh, a soldier's a coward if he leaves a solitary bean
Oh, it isn't the fighting that will make a soldier cross and mean
It is only the beans!
You can grab a marine and you show him a bean
He says: "What does it mean, that I never have seen"
So you grab a civilian, and one in a million can identify
So I say to you: "Why do we got to have beans?"
Multiple beans, ??? beans, succulent beans
Nothing but beans
(beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans,
beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans, beans)

Corabelle

Posted 2008-04-01 8:14 PM (#14535 - in reply to #14530)

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Location: Rapid City, SD

Subject: Thanks, Park - but -

I just remembered that it wasn't in the doctor's office where I saw it, but in a Reminisce magazine right here at home. Here it is:

"They're either too young or too old.
"They're either too gray or too grassy green.
"The pickin's are poor, and the crops are lean.
"They're isn't any gravy; the gravy's in the Navy."

I think this meant all the "just right" guys are in the Navy.

But, we already knew that, didn't we?

Cora

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