If he can fight like he can love, good night Germany! / words by Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers music by George W. Meyer

VERSE 01: Little Mary’s beau, said “I’ve got to go,/I must fight for Uncle Sam”/Standing in the crowd Mary called aloud/”Fare thee well my lovin’ man”/All the girls said “Ain’t he nice and tall”./Mary answered “yes, and that’s not all.”
CHORUS 01: “If he can fight like he can love,/Oh, what a soldier boy he’ll be!/If he’s just half as good in a trench/As he was in the park on a bench./Then ev’ry Hun, had better run/And find a great big linden tree,/I know he’ll be a Hero “over there”/Cause he’s a bear in any Morris chair/And if he fights like he can love/Why, then it’s good night Germany!”
VERSE 02: Ev’ry single day, all the papers say,/Mary’s beau is oh, so brave/With his little gun, chasing ev’ry Hun/He has taught them to behave/Little Mary proudly shakes her head,/And says “Do you remember when I said?”
CHORUS 02: If he can fight like he can love,/Oh, what a soldier boy he’ll be!/If he’s just half as good in a trench/As he was in the park on a bench./Then ev’ry Hun, had better run/And find a big linden tree,/I never saw him in a real good scrap/But you’re a goner when you’re in his lap/And if he fights like he can love/Why, then it’s good night Germany!”