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Thread #85208   Message #1587746
Posted By: Cats at Work
21-Oct-05 - 09:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Remembrance Day songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Remembrance Day songs
There is always Jon Heslop's 'Poor Murdered Men'. The first time I sang this was sitting, on my own, in the corner of Pere La Chaise cemetry in Paris where all the boy soldiers are buried, ver quietly and for them. By the time I had finished I had an audience and alot of them were tearful. A stunning song that was written as the poppies fell from the ceiling of the Albert Hall for the Rememberance Day commemmoration. It's about how many of those who died were conscripted, on both sides, and they didn't give their lives, they were murdered by the politicians..... and, again it is, like Hawker's, a song that is now sung in Unsung Heroes.