Freddy Grant - You'll Get Used to It
You’ll get used to it,
You’ll get used to it
The first year is the worst year,
Then you’ll get used to it
You can scream and you can shout,
They’ll never let you out
It serves you right, you So and So,
Why weren’t you naturalized Eskimo?
Just tell yourself, it’s marvelous,
You’ll get to like it more and more
You’ve got to get used to it!,
And when you got used to it
You feel just as lousy as you felt before.
You’ll get used to it,
You’ll get used to it
The first year is the worst year,
Then you’ll get used to it
You will never see your wife,
For they locked you in for life
It makes no difference who you are
A soda jerk or movie star
You'll get used to it
One of the versions in this article will be the one you want.
Try the Wilf Carter or John Pratt versions first.
'You'll Get Used to It'. World War II song in quick-march tempo, written in 1940 by Freddie Grant about life in a camp for German and Austrian nationals (many of whom were refugees) in England during the hostilities. It appeared first in the November 1941 issue of Stackeldraht (sic), the newspaper published in the internment camp at Farnham, Que, to which Grant had been transferred. A version with modified lyrics credited to Gordon Victor (a pseudonym for the song's commercial publisher, Gordon V. Thompson) was popular as a morale booster during the war, and the title became a catch phrase among the allied forces. This version was sung frequently by the Happy Gang, recorded by Wilf Carter (and in the 1960s by the Al Baculis Singers), and appeared in the folio Sing With Gracie Fields (Robbins). In Canada the song was a show stopper as sung by John Pratt to his own lyrics in Meet the Navy. Pratt also performed his version in the English movie of the show and on a Victor recording.
It's during times like these that I remember my Father's
last words, which were: "Don't son, that gun is loaded."