| I don't know where I heard it (probably in a bar) but I heard it sung like this;
Far away, bugles play,
Sounding taps at the end of the day.
Gone the sun, night has come, day is done.
Also Reveille was;
1. You've gotta get up, you've gotta get up, you've gotta get up it's morning.
2. You've gotta get up, you've gotta get up, get up with the bugle call.
3. The Colonel told the Captain, the Captain told the Sergeant, the Sergeant told the bugler, the bugler told them all.
4. Repeat lines 1. thru 2.
I may be mistaken but it seems that I might have seen a performance on TV of Bob Hope's tours and they were sung by a lady, probably just put words to music for the boys.
__________________ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill |