The General's Fast Asleep

You won't see any big parade

There won't be any bugle played

Sad to say no war today

'Cause the general's fast asleep

Soldiers bold in a mighty row

They've been told they're to fight the foe

Sad to say no war today

'Cause the general's fast asleep

The colonel's mad, and the major blue

The captain's sad and the sergeant too

Guess this war will have to keep

It's enough to make an army weep

Look oh look at his curly head

Time to take him away to bed

Sad to say no war today

'Cause the general's fast asleep

It seems an awful shame

That his victory won't go down to fame

Sandman's here to dim the light

Little general, good night