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Thread #24768   Message #3003476
Posted By: GUEST
09-Oct-10 - 06:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sing Me To Sleep / Sing Mir Dein Lied
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sing Me To Sleep / Sing Mir Dein Lied
The WWI army parody was, I believe, written by one of the highlanders in the Canadian Scottish Regiment based in Vancouver, Canada. I have the newspaper clipping from around 1916 that simply states "The following poem was written by one of the Vancouver boys at the front."