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Thread #37493   Message #648476
Posted By: Herga Kitty
12-Feb-02 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: C. Fox Smith Sea Poems (PermaThread)
Subject: RE: C. Fox Smith Sea Poems
McGrath

This probably belongs on a separate thread, but there are several more songs by more recent songwriters about WW1, all with specific local roots, which crack me up, including The Antelope (Mick Ryan), 13 Florins on the Bar (Mike Sparks), "The Sergeant said 'Son'" (Steve Thomason). And there's Les Sullivan's "Menin Gate", which reminds us that the number of sailors killed on land in Flanders exceeded those lost at sea.