Talk:Soldier's poem

Origins
In Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), p. 128, this is described as a variant of a poem by Frank B. Camp. It is a loose adaptation of the original: And we do the last and glories parade, on Heaven's shining stairs, And the angels bid us welcome and the harps begin to play, We can draw a million canteen checks and spend them in a day, It is then we'll hear St. Peter tell us loudly with a yell, "Take a front seat you soldier men, you've done your hitch in Hell." The original poem was apparently popular enough to have been widely plagiarized in periodicals by 1920; but today the variants are more well known than the original. ~ Ningauble 12:12, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * When the final taps is sounded and we lay aside life's cares,
 * Frank Bernard Camp, "Our Hitch in Hell", st. 6, in American Soldier Ballads (1917), p. 21