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Mess Call played on the bugle by a member of the United States Army Band

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Mess Call is a bugle call which signals time to go to the mess hall.

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} </score> Mess call is associated with the following lyrics:

Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean:
Coffee, coffee, coffee, without a speck of cream:
Porky, porky, porky, without a streak of lean.[1]

Notes[]

  1. Sperber, Hans (1951). "Bugle Calls". Indiana University Press. pp. 167–170. JSTOR 4317288. 
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