Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!

"Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip" is a ragtime song published as sheet music in 1918 by Leo Feist Inc. of New York City.

The song appears to salute American soldiers, although some have suggested that it has a more cynical meaning, in that it criticizes their transformation into an identical, conforming mass.

[2] According to the sheet music,[3] it was "written around a Fort Niagara fragment" by Robert Lloyd, "Army song leader."

We've left our occupations and home, so far and dear, But when the going's rather rough, We raise this song in cheer: [chorus: repeat twice] Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, With your hair cut just as short as mine, Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, You're surely looking fine!

You see them on the highway, You meet them down the pike, In olive drab and khaki Are soldiers on the hike; And as the column passes, The word goes down the line, Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, You're surely looking fine.