lieutenant in his regiment. Thus this song.
Lieutenant Bell
Lieutenant Bell
Lieutenant Bell
Has got a wife,
And such a wife
You've never seen in all your life!
Lieutenant Bell,
Don't leave the base!
Mrs. Bell
Would be hell
To replace.Lieutenant Bell,
We knock on wood---
The USO should only treat us half so good.
Lieutenant Bell,
Don't go to war---
We'll never gripe, never gripe
Anymore
For now we know what officers are for.She's got a build on her
That makes you wanna jump offa piers,
She's got a look on her
That makes you turn to jelly;
Oh, she's a sucker for the patriotic mottos she hears:
She believes an army travels on its belly.Lieutenant Bell
Has got a wife---
And such a wife
You've never seen in all your life!
Lieutenant Bell
Don't say farewell---
But if you must
Then you just
Have to leave her behind,
Or soon
This platoon
Would go out of its mind,
And you'd be un-American as hell!
Lieutenant Bell!
Lieutenant Bell!
Lieutenant Bell!