GERTIE FROM BIZERTE
Type
Song
Composer
James Cavanaugh, Walter Kent, and Bob Cutter
Lyricist
James Cavanaugh, Walter Kent and Bob Cutter
Performers
Three Jesters, The
Publisher
Shapiro, Bernstein, New York
Cover Artist
Robert
Notes
[Sanitized for the home front]

The original was published in YANK and The Stars and Stripes in slightly different forms. Additional verses were submitted in response to a letter to the Editor of VFW Magazine.
Lyrics

There's a lovesick "magoo" in the army,
Who's in love with a sweet desert rose,
When the moon's shining bright,
He sings to her each night,
And here's the way it goes:

Oh, Gertie from Bizerte,
You're as purty, purty, purty as can be;
Gertie from Bizerte,
Don't you never, ever dare desert me.
Tho' your lingo I don't know,
When we kiss, you make me holler "Bingo,"
Oh! Oh! Oh! Gertie from Bizerte,
You're the gal for me.

Country
Tunisia
Cities
Bizerte
  • GERTIE FROM BIZERTE