Chapter 5: Hail, Hail, The Gang’s All Here

          So today was the first day I decided to look at my fellow classmate’s blogs and I found the one Jake Farnworth wrote about the song the Englishmen were singing quite intriguing. I was actually curious about this song and was thinking about blogging about it myself while reading the chapter. However, I felt as if I should give Jake the credit for tying it all together first. The lyric of the song that the Englishman sang while the American soldiers walked through the door was, “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here...” (Vonnegut 93). So I clicked on the article attached to Jake’s blog and read more about it. I feel the same way Jake feels about the passage, which is that the Englishmen were singing a song popular in America to make the American soldiers more comfortable and to make them feel like they are at home. This popular American song written in 1917 was use in Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five as a coping mechanism for the American soldiers by the Englishmen.

Hail, hail, the gang's all here

What the heck do we care

What the heck do we care

Hail, hail, the gang's all here

What the heck do we care now