{"id":3684,"date":"2021-10-18T20:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:30:43","slug":"so-long-its-been-good-to-know-ya-wwi-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/so-long-its-been-good-to-know-ya-wwi-version\/","title":{"rendered":"So long . . . . – ORIG WWI Version"},"content":{"rendered":"

{C} I got the news that the {F} war had {G} begun<\/span><\/strong>
\nIt was {C} straight for the Army {F} Hall that I {G} run<\/span><\/strong>
\nAnd {C} all of the {C7} people in my {F} home town<\/span><\/strong>
\nWas {C} a running up and a {G} running down<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Singing:
\n<\/span><\/em>{C} So long, it\u2019s been good to know yuh.\u00a0 {G} So long, it\u2019s been good to {C} know yuh.\u00a0 {C} So {C7} long, it\u2019s {F} been good to know yuh.\u00a0 <\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\nThere’s a {C} mighty big war that’s {G} got to be won<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\nAnd we’ll get back together {C} again.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The crowd was packed by the railroad track<\/span><\/strong>
\nPeople was yelling and patting my back<\/span><\/strong>
\nAnd while the engineer rung his bell<\/span><\/strong>
\nI hugged all the mothers and kissed all the gals,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CHORUS: Singing:\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 There’s a mighty big war that’s got to be won, and we’ll get back together again.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I got to the camp and I learnt how to fight<\/span><\/strong>
\nFascists in daytime, mosquitoes at night<\/span><\/strong>
\nI got my orders to cross the blue sea<\/span><\/strong>
\nSo I waved “goodbye” to the girls I could see,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CHORUS: Singing:\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 There’s a mighty big war that’s got to be won, and we’ll get back together again.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I got on a boat and I started to float<\/span><\/strong>
\nMy old pack-sack and my big wool coat<\/span><\/strong>
\nWith ten thousand men we rode the foam<\/span><\/strong>
\nAnd sung this song to the people back home:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CHORUS: Singing:\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 There’s a mighty big war that’s got to be won, and we’ll get back together again.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I landed somewhere on a fighting shore<\/span><\/strong>
\nWith ten million soldiers and ten million more<\/span><\/strong>
\nAnd while we were chasing that Super Race<\/span><\/strong>
\nWe sung this song in the chase.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It was:<\/span>
\nCHORUS: Singing:\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 There’s a mighty big war that’s got to be won, and we’ll get back together again.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So it won’t be long till the fascists are gone<\/span><\/strong>
\nAnd all of their likes are finished and done<\/span><\/strong>
\nWe’ll throw the clods of dirt in their face<\/span><\/strong>
\nAnd walk away from that lonesome place<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

CHORUS: Singing:\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 So long, it’s been good to know you.\u00a0 There’s a mighty big war that’s got to be won, and we’ll get back together again.<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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{C} I got the news that the {F} war had {G} begun It was {C} straight for the Army {F} Hall that I {G} run And {C} all of the {C7} people in my {F} home town Was {C} a running up and a {G} running down Singing: {C} So … CLICK TO VIEW SONGSo long . . . . – ORIG WWI Version<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,133,126,116,117,94,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-patriotic-songs","category-woody-guthrie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27853,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/27853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}