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Way over there in a / Small town in Germany / There lived a shoemaker / Schumann was his name / Ich bin ein Musikant / Ich bin für das Vaterland / I have a big bass drum / And this is how I play!
—A drinking song sung in British military messes in Occupied Germany, with obscene variations, to the tune of the ‘Marche Militaire’.