On This Day, 9 January 1918

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Wednesday 9 January 1918

“THE LITTLE BRUM RATION”

“One of the Rationed,” who, by the way, lives in Gilbert-road, and so perhaps  imbibes some of the spirit of the satirist after whom it is named, perpetrates the following “Song of the Rations,” which is supposed to go to the tune of “Little Brown Jug”:-

Work all day; starve all night;

No beer, no food, and not much light.

Plenty of rattle, nothing much done;

To live like this quite takes the bun.

Chorus:

Ha, ha, ha, he, he, he,

Half-pound of sugar and an ounce of tea,

Four ounces of “March on,” no bally jam.

That’s how they feed you in Birmingham.