Der Fremdenführer (The Tourist Guide):

Ja, beim Militär (Yes, a soldier’s life)

Carl Michael Ziehrer was the nearest rival to the Strauss family in the ballroom, the concert hall and the musical theatre - although obviously not a very serious rival since his music did not have the quality to survive in anything like such quantity or for anything like as long as that of the Strausses. He is remembered today, if he is remembered at all, for two of his twenty or so operettas, Der Landstreicher and Der Fremdenführer. One of the most attractive numbers in the latter work, which was first performed at the Theater an der Wien in 1902, is Ja, beim Militär, which is sung by a minor character, an Austrian military bandsman called Ratz, at an early stage in the first act. As Ziehrer was himself a military bandsman at one time, he would no doubt agree that the hard life of a soldier is made tolerable only by love affairs - not just one but many of them, at all times of the day.