Show R Reeves e eVe Sees e s L Light ig hi Sunrise Has Charm Excuses F Fir ir ing Squad I The hour was a a. a m m. m The beauteous beauteous beauteous beau beau- summer sun was just tiptoeing over the eastern Wasatch The sweetly sad strains of first call had just finished finIshed finished fin fin- reverberating from hill to hill hili hilland hilland and through the barracks after it had hall passed from the brass bugles bugle's mouth The camp was astir Jack Jacl Reeves F company comedian was sitting on the edge of his bunk hunk engaged in the pleasant task of trying trying trying try try- ing to get his leggings on right side u up Somehow those leggings they use inthe Inthe in inthe the arm army are just lust like slices of buttered buttered buttered but but- bread They always alwa's Insist on turning bottom side up Jack had hot got his leggings on properly properly properly prop prop- erly and had buttoned his woolen shirt over his manly chest when he glanced out the window and noticed the mornIng morning morning morn morn- ing beams of the summer slimmer sun Its nice to get et up in the mornin but its it's nicer to lo lie tie in b bed d hummed Reeves as he looked down at the the slum slum slum- slumbering bering city of Salt Lake dimly diml outlined outlined outlined out out- lined in the gathering da daylight t. t Jack Jae Harry Lauder was was was' was right right said Then he ad added ed Now I 1 know why they tale take em out and shoot em at sunrise If they feel like I do o they would just as as leave be shot as not And the other fellows who are up even ever earlier the the chaps chas who are on th the firing tiring squad squad feel feel like doin doing something terrible anyway and I so they Just take out their spite by byI I shooting the victim In cold blood I Cant get em up I cant can't get em u Cant Can't get em up in the morning I cant can't get em up I cant can't get em up I cant can't get em up at atall all The corporals corporal's worsen the private I The sergeants sergeant's worsen the corporal Lieutenants Lieutenant's worsen the sergeant And the captains captain's worst of all allI aliI ali ali- I cant can't g get t emIt em em mIt m- m It was the music of reveille le that floated in from the throats of all the the bugles bugle In the world Aw hell Jack said an and pulled on onI I hi his service hat I |