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Posted By: GUEST,henryp
24-Feb-25 - 07:31 AM
Thread Name: Any February Songs?
Subject: RE: Any February Songs?
24 February 1920 American-born Nancy Astor became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons following her election as an MP two months earlier.

https://war-poetry.livejournal.com/723121.html 'The Ballad of the D DAY DODGERS By Lance-Sergeant Harry Pynn of the Tank Rescue Section,
19 Army Fire Brigade, who was with the 79th Division just south of Bologna, Italy. Written November 1944

Now Lady Astor, get a load of this.
Don't stand up on a platform and talk a load of piss.
You're the nation's sweetheart, the nation's pride
We think your mouth's too bloody wide.
We are the D-Day Dodgers, in Sunny Italy.

https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/track/73551?l=en The D-Day Dodgers Contributors Henderson, Hamish, 1919-2002 (10)
The tune is by Norbert Schultze, written around 1938 for the German poem 'Lili Marleen' or 'Das Mädchen unter der Laterne', written in 1915 by Hans Leip.


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