Show THE BTITTONLE3S BRIGADE I O were a shabby crowd of boys were In an awful llx I 1x Our tAlk is laden with regretful walls Our clothes are held upon us with a lot of sharpened sticks And safety pins and rusty shingle nails When breaking camp at Denver In most fascinating swarms The pretty maidens for us slyly laid And swiped the shining buttons from our natty uniforms And sent us forth a buttonless brigade We once were proud a monarchs of our mllitarv stvlc I Wed stand Glittering grandeur round our lents But O the Denver maiden with her soul entrancing smile Has robbed us of our brightest ornament orna-ment Shed say Goodbye God bless you with emotiontrembling lip That loyal lovely aggravating maid Then a pull muted her tiny snip scissors and wed hear And soon we were a buttonless brigade They wear them on their hat pins and upon their shirt vaists too And where else goodness gracious only knows While we poor devastated and uneasv boys In blue Are doubting the allegiance of our clothes In vain our pleas and prayers to our good old Uncle SAm g For few supplies he seems to be afraid The girls again will rob us else he doesnt care a clam For the troubles of the buttonless brigade bri-gade As to tho west we traveled folks would peer Into our train Upon our brassless clothing they would gaze And laugh at our appearance in a merry sort of strain And think we were a lot of martial jays The sunrays of Manila may upon us brightly beam When on the heated march or en parade pa-rade But to their glittering welcome therell be no responsive gleam From the bosoms of the buttonless brl sade To comrades left behind us we In earnestness earn-estness would say Beware the Denver girlie Make her stand In social away conversation fully seven feet And from her scissors pocket keep her hand Shell hypnotize you with her smiles your martial eyes shell blind Her evade wiles you should with watchful care Or when you come to march away as we did you will find You gade are I brassshorn buttonless bri Denver Post |