Received a very nice letter and a generous donation to our WWII jukebox this morning. The gentlemen stated:
Just learned of your site tonight, I think that I have spent $25 in nickels already. I found you by searching for "Choc'lot Solders from the USA", a very popular tune when we landed in England in 1944. Any clues where I can find it? Thanks. Nav Fosse, US army retired some 100 years ago (it seems)
So got to looking around and found the lyrics:
Chocolate drop, always fast asleep
Dozin in his cosy bed
Chocolate drop has got no time for sleep
He's riding in a jeep instead
They used to call in lazy bones in Harlem
Lazy good for nothing all the day
But now they're mighty proud of him in Harlem
Chocolate soldier from the USA.
They used to call him just a chocolate dreamer
Until the day he heard the bugle play
They made a coloured Doughboy out of dreamer
Chocolate soldier from the USA.
Never in the school room
Always in the pool room
For a nickel or a dime he'd croon
His idea of heaven
Was seven come eleven
And dancing every evening neath the yellow Harlem moon
He used to get a scolding from his mammy
But now you'll hear his mammy proudly say
He's somewhere over there for Uncle Sammy
Chocolate Soldier from the USA.
I did locate the MP3 on the UK version of Amazon and have asked Colin if he would download it for me, for I can't purchase it directly with my US account. Can't wait to get a copy and share it with Nav. Of course will add it to our jukebox too. Oh the song is done by Lou Preager and His Orchestra.
I actually found a copy on some other sites, but you have to join, and I do not feel comfortable doing so anymore, due to "cookies" they place on your computer and the privacy issue, etc. I'd rather stick with Amazon.
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