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Thread #167905 Message #4054827
Posted By: Phillip
24-May-20 - 09:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: spanish flu 1918
Subject: RE: BS: spanish flu 1918
Thank you. I am going to have a look at the second half now.
I have just been looking at the Facebook post, and it seems this was originally a poem in a Swiss magazine, apparently the equivalent of Punch, so no tune associated with it, of course.
For what it's worth Klaus the East Frieslander (a long way from Switzerland geographically and culturally) has set it to a tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUpwHMGpsc