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Thread #92616   Message #1772410
Posted By: GUEST,Guest
29-Jun-06 - 10:04 PM
Thread Name: Songs about World War I
Subject: RE: Songs about World War I
Graham O'Callaghan has recorded a fantastic arrangement of 'From Severn by the Somme' which was written by Martin Graebe. He is accompanied by Rob Harbron a fantastic concertina player ex-Dr Faustus and now with English Acoustic Collective. It really is a haunting, lump in the throat song .... and he sings it much better than Martyn Wyndham-Read before anyone starts ....Apparently Graham was given the song by Martin himself and asked if he would learn it and sing it. It takes an unusual angle from the point of view of a man who has to stay at home as he is unfit to join up because of a heart condition but then watches his loved one go to war as a nurse and who eventually gets killed in action herself!

Brilliant .... one not to be missed