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Thread #49675   Message #750968
Posted By: cetmst
19-Jul-02 - 06:53 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The Bells of Hell Go Ting-A-Ling-A-Ling
Subject: RE: The Bells of Hell
Printed versions in two books, lyrics with music, "Legion Airs", ed. Frank Peat and Lee Orean Smith 1932 and "Songs From the Front and Rear" by Anthony Hopkins, Canadian Servicemen's Songs 1979. Changes angels to little devils in first verse. Said to be a song of airmen who survived crashes in WWI and revived by airmen in WWII.