Art Mooney Honey Babe

The song Honey Babe comes from a 1955 movie called Battle Cry

[williamfox]

SEMPER FI to all the Boys! James Whitmore was in this Video. He is departed now and was a Marine! Like hell he's still and always will be a Marine. He never left!

[johnwaldron]

All the versions of the song use the original lyrics to the actual song, not the one that was sung by the Marines when they were marching back to Camp McKay in the movie. My dad was a Gunny in "M" Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment from mid 1942, up to early 1944. He was with the unit when they were in New Zealand in 1943 just prior to the entire 2nd Marine Division assaulting Tarawa. Dad's unit actually stayed at another camp in New Zealand called Camp Paekakariki just down the road from Camp McKay. The movie depicts a communications platoon assigned to the 6th Marines, but not specifically my dad's outfit. He did actually make the famous 50 mile forced march depicted in the movie, but they sang the same version of the song as they entered the camp worn out, tired, and more than ready for a beer. I wrote down the lyrics years ago, but if you listen close in the movie, you'll hear the same ones. Here you go. Hope this helps. Semper Fi!!


Pogey Bait 6th Marines

Our right flank is out of step honey, honey.
Our right flank is out of step babe, babe. Our right flank is out of step, pogey bait and drinks in step, honey oh baby o' mine.

Go to your left your right your left, go to your left your right your left.

Lead me to a Coke machine honey, honey. Lead me to a Coke machine babe, babe. Lead me to a Coke machine, like a pogey bait Marine. Honey oh baby o' mine.

Go to your left your right your left, go to your left your right your left.

Look around, look around. Come and join the happy hunting ground. Seven women to each guy, what a lovely way to die, honey oh baby o' mine.

Go to your left your right your left, go to your left your right your left.

Actually, I found out, decades after serving in the Second Marine division, that this is our divisional march song. All divisions seem to have one, and this one is ours. It was the Second division that Leon Uris served in and the subject of the movie.