Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1918 — “I’M RARIN’ TO GO” [ARTICLE]

“I’M RARIN’ TO GO”

A New Patriotic Song Composed by Lon Healy. Lbn Healy, Rensselaer’s popular -pestoffice clerk and occasional song writer, has composed a new patriotic song with rollicking march music, entitled “I’m Rarin’ to Go.” The “plot” is based on the recently published letter of a young Kentuckian conscript, who feared he might not be accepted, and wrote to the examining board to hurry up and call him as he was just rearing to go. The words and music are; both by Mr. Healy, and are protected by copyright. The chorus runs thusly: I’m rar-in, just rar-in, To get a gun and go To Europe, to Europe, And them there fel-lers show. So good-bye, gal, I’ll lick ’em Sal, Then I’ll come back, but oh, I’m rar-in, just rar-in To get a gun and go. This promises to be one of the most popular song hits Mr. Healy has yet composed, and his many friends hope he will make a barrel 0 of money out of it.