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Sheet music to "Good Morning, Mr Zip-Zip-Zip!" Vintage Audio: Good Morning, Mr Zip-Zip-Zip!
Updated - Sunday, 23 February, 2003

With words and music by U.S. army song leader Robert Lloyd, Good Morning, Mr Zip-Zip-Zip was a popular if quirky wartime song published in New York in 1918.

The version of the song available here was recorded by Arthur Fields in 1918. (MP3 format 905kb).

Good Morning, Mr Zip-Zip-Zip!

Verse 1
We come from ev’ry quarter,
From North, South, East and West,
To clear the way to freedom
For the land we love the best.
We’ve left our occupations
and home, so far and dear,
But when the going’s rather rough,
We raise this song in cheer:

Chorus: to be sung twice after each verse
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
With your hair cut just as short as mine,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
You’re surely looking fine!
Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust,
If the Cam-ls don’t get you,
The Fatimas must,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
With your hair cut just as short as,
your hair cut just as short as,
your hair cut just as short as mine.

Verse 2
You see them on the high-way,
You meet them down the pike,
In olive drab and khaki
Are soldiers on the hike;
And as the column passes,
The word goes down the line,
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip,
You’re surely looking fine.

By 1918 the percentage of women to men working in Britain had risen to 37% from 24% at the start of the war.