Our Jimmy has gone for to live in a tent
They have grafted him into the army;
He finally puckered up courage and went
When they grafted him into the army
I told them the child was too young, alas
At the captain's forequarters they said he would pass
They'd train him up well in the infantry class
So they grafted him into the army

Oh, Jimmy, farewell! Your brothers fell
Way down in Al-a-bar-my
I thought they would spare a lone widder's heir
But they grafted him into the army

Dressed up in his unicorn, dear little chap,
They have grafted him into the army;
It seems but a day since he sot in my lap
But they grafted him into the army
And these are the trousies he used to wear
Them very same buttons, the patch and the tear
But Uncle Sam gave him a bran' new pair
When they grafted him into the army

Oh, Jimmy, farewell! Your brothers fell
Way down in Al-a-bar-my
I thought they would spare a lone widder's heir
But they grafted him into the army

Now in my provisions I see him revealed
They have grafted him into the army
A picket beside the contented field
They have grafted him into the army
He looks kinder sickish, begins to cry,
A big volunteer standing right in his eye!
Oh, what if the ducky should up and die
Now they've grafted him into the army

Oh, Jimmy, farewell! Your brothers fell
Way down in Al-a-bar-my
I thought they would spare a lone widder's heir
But they grafted him into the army

Oh, Jimmy, farewell! Your brothers fell
Way down in Al-a-bar-my
I thought they would spare a lone widder's heir
But they grafted him into the army