As Colin and Banning turned away, the psychiatrist heard the sergeant begin to sing softly to himself. Suddenly Colin stopped and turned back to the man.
"What'd you say?" he demanded.
"Nothing, sir."
"What you were singing, that song."
"Oh, it was the one the colonel was whistling, sir. It gets to running around in your head. I'm sorry, it won't happen again."
"No, I want to know what the words are. What you just said."
"Well, it goes, I mean it starts out, I can't remember the whole—"
"Come on, man! Sing it!"
In an uncertain voice the radioman began to sing:
"I had a true wife but I left her, oh, oh, oh, oh.