Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers is a World War I era song that tells about a young girl sewing shirts for soldiers fighting abroad. Her efforts are in vain however, as "Some soldiers send epistles,say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews." It was composed by Herman Darewski, written by R.P. Weston, sung by both Billy Murray and Al Jolson, and published by T. B. Harms & Francis and Day & Hunter in 1914. Each verse was meant to be sung faster than the last which presented issues for soldiers who had consumed large quantities of beer.