My Dad, who was in WWII, used the 'Gingerbread' chant:
I LEFT my wife and forty-eight children
At home in bed in starving condition
With nothing but gingerbread LEFT * LEFT * LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT.
And, Nonie, if you're still around, the beer song goes:
Glorious, glorious,
One keg of beer just for the four of us
Glory be to God that there are no more of us
For one of us could drink it all alone
And then you sang Drink,(4x) Drank(4X) Drunk(4x) and a snore or a barf or whatever...
It could have been a marching song, it's got a strong 4/4 beat, but it just as easily could have been a drinking song, with chugging on the last part.
Blessings,
Barbara Seems like I remember this as part of a medeley, maybe of Jolly Bunch of Coconuts, or