Threadwinder.info - Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers Al Jolson's Sensational Success written by R.P. Weston, music: Herman Darewski, 1915, T.B.Harms and Francis Day & Hunter, NY.

You can hear Al Jolson sing Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers on: YouTube

      Verse 1: "Sister Susie's sewing in the kitchen on a 'Singer,'
            There's miles of flannel on the floor and up the stairs,
            and Father it's rotten getting mixed up with the cotton
            and sitting on the needles that she leaves upon the chairs.
            And should you knock at our street door Ma whispers 'Come inside'
            Then when you ask where Susis is,she says with loving pride,"

      Chorus: "Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers.
            Such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows!
            Some soldiers send epistles, say they'd sooner sleep in thistles
            than the saucy, soft, short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews."

      Verse 2: "Piles and piles and piles of shirts she sends out to the soldiers,
            and sailors won't be jealous when they see them, not at all.
            And when we say her stitiching will set all the soldiers itching,
            She says our soldiers fight best when their back's against the wall.
            And little brother Gussie he who lisps when he says 'yes'
            Says where's the cotton gone from off my kite? Oh, I can gueth!"
      Verse 3: "I forgot to tell you that our Sister Susie's married,
            And when she isn't sewing shirts she's sewing other things,
            Then little sister Molly says,'Oh, sister's bought a dolly
            She's making all the clothes for it with pretty bows and strings.
            Says Susie, don't be silly as she blushes and she sighs.
            Then mother smiles and whispers with a twinkle in her eyes."