[Lyric] Salonika (Jimmy Crowley)

[Verse 1]
My husband's in Salonika
I wonder if he's dead
I wonder if he knows he has
A kid with a foxy head

[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy

[Verse 2]
And when the war is over
What will the slackers do?
They'll be all around the soldiers
For the loan of a bob or two

[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 3]
And when the war is over
What will the soldiers do?
They'll be walking around with a leg-and-a-half
The slackers will have two

[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy

[Verse 4]
They tax their pound o' butter
They tax their ha'penny bun
But still with all their taxes
Thеy can't beat the bloody Hun

[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldiеr boy

[Verse 5]
They tax the Coliseum
They tax St Mary's Hall
Why don't they tax the bobbies
With their backs against the wall
[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy

[Verse 6]
And when the war is over
What will the slackers do?
For every kid in America
In Cork there will be two

[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy

[Verse 7]
For they takes us out to Blarney
They lays us on the grass
They puts us in the family way
And leaves us on our arse

[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy
[Verse 8]
There's lino in the parlour
And in the kitchen too
A glass-backed chevonier
That we got from Dicky Glue

[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy

[Verse 9]
And never marry a soldier
A sailor or a Marine
But keep your eye in the Sinn Fein boy
With his yellow, white and green

[Chorus]
So right away, so right away
So right away, Salonika
Right away, me soldier boy