G'day fromm the depths of the antipodes,

Pete M: Interesting to see you quote ascribed to Bob Dylan. I had heard of it as graffiti in a Vietnam latrine (very early in that mess).

On the main thread: I believe a song, remembered in Australia ... and revived in the second round (the War After the War to End All Wars) had been suppressed in WW1. This is variously Suvla Bay or Suda Bay. The burden is that a girl joins the Red Cross to care for wounded soldiers after her sweetheart is killed. The authorities considered it sedition to suggest that our noble lads could be killed, or even wounded.

I Will dig out the words, tune and history. I know that it is in the Second Penguin Australian Song Book, by Bill Scott, but I have heard a number of versions. I would also have various words to Dinky Di but I doubt that it was ever recorded or printed in wartime, being in the Trench Song category.

Regards,

Bob Bolton