I'll Make A Man Of You
Performer(s): Original London Cast



The Army and the Navy need attention
The outlook isn't healthy you'll admit
But I've got a perfect dream of a new recruiting scheme
Which I think is absolutely it
If only other girls would do as I do
I believe that we could manage it alone
For I turn all suitors from me but the sailor and the Tommy
I've an army and a navy of my own

On Sunday I walk out with a Soldier
On Monday I'm taken by a Tar
On Tuesday I'm out with a baby Boy Scout
On Wednesday a Hussar
On Thursday a gang oot wi' a Scottie
On Friday, the Captain of the crew
But on Saturday I'm willing, if you'll only take the shilling
To make a man of any one of you

I teach the tenderfoot to face the powder
That gives an added lustre to my skin
And I show the raw recruit how to give a chaste salute
So when I'm presenting arms he's falling in
It makes you almost proud to be a woman
When you make a strapping soldier of a kid
And he says 'You put me through it and I didn't want to do it
But you went and made me love you so I did'

On Sunday I walk out with a Bo'sun
On Monday a Rifleman in green
On Tuesday I choose a 'sub' in the 'Blues'
On Wednesday a Marine
On Thursday a Terrier from Tooting
On Friday a Midshipman or two
But on Saturday I'm willing, if you'll only take the shilling
To make a man of any one of you