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Thread #75427 Message #3682108
Posted By: Rapparee
03-Dec-14 - 09:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs for post WWII Veterans
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Songs for post WWII Veterans
We Gotta Get Outa This Place -- probably the most popular among American troops.
M-I-C-K-E-Y -- very popular, because of the term "Mickey Mouse Shit."
House of the Rising Sun
Paint It Black
Ring of Fire
and a lot of others. I heard all of these and more between when I enlisted in 1963 and was discharged (honorably!!) in 1971.
Oh, and when you were in line the brass did NOT like you baaing like sheep.