Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning – A World War One Music Video

 

      Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning,

      Oh! How I'd love to remain in bed

      For the hardest blow of all is to hear the bugler call:

      'You've got to get up, you've got to get up,

      You've got to get up this morning!'

      Someday I'm going to murder the bugler

      Someday they're going to find him dead

      I'll amputate his reveille and stomp upon it heavily

      And spend the rest of my life in bed!

Commentary from the Library of Congress

Already a well-known songwriter when the war began, Irving Berlin, himself an immigrant whose family came from Siberia, was drafted into the U.S. Army in early 1918 and assigned to Camp Upton, located in Yaphank, Long Island, New York. There Berlin wrote a Ziegfeld-style revue featuring a cast of soldiers called Yip, Yip, Yaphank, which helped raise money to construct a camp community center. "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," one of the show's hit tunes, expressed Berlin's distress over early morning reveille. Earlier it had been introduced by Eddie Cantor in the Ziegfeld Follies.

 

 Bonus Selection:I simply could not find a video of Eddie Cantor singing Oh! How I Hate, but I remember watching Eddie singing this one on TV when I was a kid.  MH