...reaching reserve billets we were marching along, laughing, and singing one of Tommy's trench ditties — " I want to go home, I want to go home, I don't want to go to the trenches no more Where sausages and whizz-bangs are galore. Take me over the sea, where the Allemand can't get at me,...

...sentry, singing in a low tone, came to him. He was singing the chorus of the popular trench ditty: "I want to go home, I want to go home. ' ' I don't want to go to the trenches no more. Where the 'whizzbangs' and 'sausages' roar galore. Take me over the sea, where the Allemand can't get...

...popularity were simply the doggerel rhymes which, set to a popular tune, hit off one's feelings to a turn. I want to go home, I want to go home, I don't want to go to the trenehes no more Where there are shells and Jack Johnsons galore, Take me over the sea Where the Alleman...

...their cheermaking songs, such as : — V. Warwickshire! entering Pfronne. THE SOMME (APRIL 1917) 19 " I want to go home. I want to go home. I don't want to go to the trenches no more, Where the Whizz-bangs and Johnsons do rattle and roar. Take me right over the sea, Where the Allemande...

...throats of blue-garbed wounded at Harrogate while I was there in training in the spring of 1916: / want to go home, I want to go home I don't want to go to the trenches no more Where Jack Johnsons burst and whizz-bangs do roar Take me over the sea Where the Alleman cannot catch...

...family, embraced patriotic airs, and questioned the effect on morale if men endlessly sang such things as I want to go home! I don't want to go to the trenches no more, Where the whizz-bangs and shrapnel they whistle and roar. Take me over the sea, Where the Allemans...