Our Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent, <br />they have grafted him into the Army, <br />he finally puckered up courage and went, <br />when they grafted him into the Army. <br />I told them the child was too young, alas! <br />At the captains forequarters, they said he would pass, <br />they'd train him up well in the Infantry class, <br />so they grafted him into the Army. <br /> <br />Oh, Jimmy, farewell! Your brothers fell way down in Alabammy; <br />I though they would spare a lone widder's heir, <br />but they grafted him into the Army. <br /> <br />Dressed up in his unicorn, dear little chap, <br />they have grafted him into the Army; <br />it seems but a day since he sot in my lap, <br />but they grafted him into the Army. <br />And these are the trousies he used to wear, <br />them very same buttons, the patch and the tear; <br />but Uncle Sam gave him a bran' new pair <br />when they grafted him into the Army. <br /> <br />Now in my provisions I see him revealed, <br />they have grafted him into the Army; <br />a picket beside the contented field, <br />they have grafted him into the Army. <br />He looks kinder sickish -- begins to cry, <br />a big volunteer standing right in his eye! <br />Oh, what if the ducky should up and die, <br />now they've grafted him into the Army.<br /><br />Henry Clay Work<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/grafted-into-the-army/
