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Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers

from The Good Old Summertime by Michael DeLuca

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𝘚π˜ͺ𝘴𝘡𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘴π˜ͺπ˜¦β€™π˜΄ 𝘚𝘦𝘸π˜ͺ𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘩π˜ͺ𝘳𝘡𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘭π˜₯π˜ͺ𝘦𝘳𝘴 (Darewski and Weston) is one of the best known tongue-twisters from the years of World War I. The orchestration mimics what might be found in an English Music Hall, with single players each on piano, drums, bass, trumpet, violin, clarinet, and trombone.

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Sister Susie's sewing in the kitchen on a "Singer,"
There's miles and miles of flannel on the floor and up the stairs,
And father says it's rotten getting mixed up with the cotton
And sitting on the needles that she leaves upon the chairs.
And should you knock at our street door, ma whispers "Come inside!"
Then when you ask where Susie is, she says with loving pride:

Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows
Some soldiers send epistles say they'd sooner sleep in thistles
Than the soft, short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews.

Piles and piles and piles of shirts she sends out to the soldiers,
And sailors won't be jealous when they see them, not at all.
And when we say her stitching will set all the soldiers itching,
She says our soldiers fight best when their back's against the wall.
And little brother Gussie, he who lisps when he says 'yes',
Says "Where's the cotton gone from off my kite? Oh I can gueth!

I forgot to tell you that our sister Susie's married,
And when she isn't sewing shirts she's sewing other things.
Then little sister Molly says, "Oh, sister's bought a dolly!
She's making all the clothes for it with pretty bows and strings."
Says Susie, "Don't be silly!" as she blushes and she sighs.
Then mother smiles and whispers with a twinkle in her eyes:

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from The Good Old Summertime, released June 20, 2021
Music by Hermann E. Darewski, Lyrics by R. P. Weston
Arranged by Michael DeLuca

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Michael DeLuca performs a variety of different musical styles throughout the Finger Lakes region of New York State.

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