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Jump in your suit
Make a salute
Boot

After you wash and dress
More or less
You go get your breakfast in a beautiful little caf? they call "The Mess"
Jack, when you convalesce

Outta your seat
Into the street
Make with the feet
Reet

If you're a P-V-T, your duty
Is to salute to L-I-E-U-T
But if you brush the L-I-E-U-T
The M-P makes you K-P on the Q-T

This is the G. I. Jive
Man alive
They give you a private tank that features a little device called "fluid drive"
Jack, after you revive

Chuck all your junk
Back in the trunk
Fall on your bunk
Clunk

This is the G. I. Jive
Man alive
They give you a private tank that features a little device called "fluid drive"
Jack, if you still survive

Chuck all your junk
Back in the trunk
Fall on your bunk
Clunk

Soon you're countin' jeeps
But before you count to five
Seems you're right back diggin' that G. I. Jive

Johnny Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He was also the founder of capitol records. He was a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others. From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s, many of the songs Mercer wrote and performed were among the most popular hits of the time. He wrote the lyrics to more than 1,500 songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received 19 Academy Award nominations and won 4.

named Jack. It is telling about what he has to do in the war and

about his duties. It also says that soon as you think everything

is calm, you have to go back to battle. You have no free time to

yourself. The title G.I. Jive is the daily routine that they have to

do everyday.

They explain his daily routine, and what his duty is. As soon

as you're in bed, you have to be up right away ready for battle.

They say when you get hurt and once you're recovered, right

away you'll be back out of the street. They also talk about how

Jack jumps in his suit, makes his salute, and talking about saying

his goodbyes.

life was like in the war. It starts out by telling him to

get his uniform on. It was also saying how he is a Private

and not a Lieutenant, and he had to salute to him. This

song relates to the war because it shows how bad the

people were treated in the war.

what happened to him when he was in the army. In a way it kind 

of described the life new recruits have when they join. It also uses

a lot of the military lingo making it very accurate.