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Thread #80804   Message #1476820
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
03-May-05 - 02:53 AM
Thread Name: Songs about the Great War (WWI)
Subject: RE: Songs about the Great War
'The Gift of Years' has been recorded by Martyn Wyndham-Read on his 'Sunlit Plains' CD, and is a wonderful perspective from one who survived and hasn't really come to terms with it (I believe there is a psychological term for it, something like survivors syndrome). And if anyone can find my CD of it (I have just the empty case here) I'd be very grateful!

I have a very old piece of sheet music called 'Songs our boys sang' if you're interested. It was printed in the 1920s so it is a fairly accurate record of what they were actually singing 'over there'. It has things like 'Tavern in the Town' and other songs of home.

Normandy Orchards is about young lads learning to fly so it's more WWII, however there was an air presence in WWI, but they were called the Royal Flying Corps and did more reconnaissance work than actual combat.

If you want a bit of 'lighter' entertainment - 'Snoopy versus the Red Baron' is loosely based on the WWI ace pilot Baron von Richthofen.

LTS