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Thread #10366 Message #933615
Posted By: toadfrog
14-Apr-03 - 10:38 PM
Thread Name: WWII songs
Subject: RE: WWII songs
GUEST: When I asked about that earlier, on THIS THREAD, the response seemed to be that Godfrey's version was not printed because it was not considered printable in its day. And also, that Godfrey only wrote down a song already long in circulation. There has sure been an enormous change in my lifetime, which is getting to seem long but is but nothing to the geologist, in attitudes about what is printable be printed and what isn't.
Of course all this does not prove the song is old. But the songs words are not about World War II, so it seems implausible it was written then.