E-text prepared by Rick Niles, Rudy Ketterer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Transcriber's note: Italicized words or phrases are enclosed by underscores; example: _word_ WITH THE COLORS Songs of the American Service by EVERARD JACK APPLETON Author of "The Quiet Courage" Cincinnati Stewart & Kidd Company 1917 Copyright, 1917 by Stewart & Kidd Company All Rights Reserved Copyright in England TO THE BEST FLAG OF ALL: The Stars and Stripes. CONTENTS I--WITH THE COLORS The Colors 9 Loyalty 10 The Old National Guard 11 The Alien 13 The 'Skeeter Fleet 17 Little Mother 18 Soldiers of the Soil 20 The Lady's Man 22 Cookie Jim 23 The Sandwich Girl 25 Bugler Bill 28 Heinie the Hostler 29 Our Job 31 Her Johnny 33 The First Fleet 34 Briggs of Base No. 8 36 The Penguin Driver 39 Waitin' 40 We're All Right Here 42 Reprisal 44 The Soul of Sergeant Todd 45 The Busy Lady 47 Overdoing It 49 The Givers 50 Hullo, Soldier, How's the Boy? 52 Beans 54 Behind the Lines 56 The Disappointed 58 Good-bye, Boys! 60 That's All 61 An American Creed 63 II--IN OTHER KEYS