Show THE SOLDIER Private Richard E. Battery C F. A. B. Camp sent In the poem which appears below with the request that it be Private long is the son of and Guy Long of Lapoint and enlisted in the U. S. army last The Standard Is glad to hear from Uintah Basin boys in the service and welcomes news of was a grumbling soldier who growled all year What wasn't what ought to be was what was always He didn't like his stations and made it plain to me That anywhere he wasn't was the place he'd rather He didn't like his general and cursed the He saw no rhyme or reason In the chores they made him He wished they would transfer to some post across the For anywhere he wasn't was the place he'd like to They sent him o'er the ocean with his rifle and his But no sooner had he landed than he wished that he was He couldn't stand the tropics with the blazing down The place to be a soldier was some good old Yankee At last death's final transfer moved him on to realms He drew a post in heaven where the perfect quarters But hardly he seated when he passed around the If Saint Peter could arrange It he would like to be |