We Are Sam Hughes' Army

	This was sent to Hubert Canfield by the Canadian correspondent who contributed the J version of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres."  The air of sardonic protest marks it as a true soldier's song, rather than the artificial moral builder like "Over There."
	The contributor notes: "This was sung to a hymn.  I know the tune, but cannot recall the name -- think it was "Three in One" or "Blessed Trinity."  Sung by the early Canadians, who went over under the Sam Hughes regime, and who found their rifles [Ross] defective."

We are Sam Hughes's Army.
We are his Infantry.
We can not fight, we can not shoot
What fucking good are we?
And when we get to Berlin,
The Kaiser he will say,
"Hoch, hoch, mein Gott, what a hell of a lot!
The Canadian Infantry."

We beat you up at Vimy,
We hammered you on the Aisne.
We gave you hell at Neuve Chappell
And here we are again.
And when we get to Berlin
The Kaiser he will say,
"Mein Gott, Von Kluck,
We're shit out of luck,
Here's the Canadian Infantry."

	Vimy Ridge, Aisne and Neuve Chappell were bloody battles in the British sector in 1917.  Alexander Von Kluck led the German army in the field at the beginning of the war.