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Thread #92616   Message #3581013
Posted By: cetmst
03-Dec-13 - 08:29 AM
Thread Name: Songs about World War I
Subject: RE: Songs about World War I
I have a cassette of The Tartan Lads, "Scotland Yet", Lisnor Recordings 1976, singing "Dark Neuve Chapels (sic)", a corruption of Dark Neuve-Chapelle, a WWI battle which was meant to be a British breakthrough but resulted only in the destruction of a Belgian village and thousands of deaths. See Wikipedia. I'm having trouble transcribing the lyrics. The chorus goes:
It's the swing of the kilts, the fine colored tartans,
The brave Scottish soldiers who marched (through/to) that hell,
(But now where's the rest who wear their own tartans?)
They are fast asleep in that dark Neuve Chapelle.
The song is attributed to McFarlane - Srerlini Music
Does anyone have the lyrics and more information on the song.