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Author: AgProv

Oct 15th 2011 at 12:36:23 PM

In Britain, wartime singing star Gracie Fields played a factory girl in a propaganda routine in a movie. She leads the entire factory in a sing-and-dance routine to a very jolly and very British song called ''"Sing as We Go"'' (parodied much later by the Monty Python team as ''Sit On My Face''). She also did a wartime anthem called something like

It's a ticklish sort of job making a thing for a thing-ummy-bob

Especially when you don't know what it's for;

But it's the girl that makes the thing that drills the hole

that holds the spring that works the thing-ummy-bob

that makes the engines roar.

And it's the girl that makes the thing that holds the oil

that oils the ring that works the thing-ummy-bob

that's going to win the war.

(Spoken): She's not what you would call, a heroine, at all,

I don't suppose you'll even know her name;

And though she'll never boast, of her important post,

She strikes a blow for Britain just the same!

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