The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #126790   Message #2820290
Posted By: Bat Goddess
24-Jan-10 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
For years I had trouble learning "Dancing At Whitsun" -- I'd tear up. Just the thought of all those villages with all the men wiped out in that horrible war, before the powers that be learned that if a battalion or regiment were made up of men from one location, if that group were obliterated, that meant all the men from that home location were lost -- leaving the widows and the children to carry on the traditions.

Linn