There's alsoHomes Fit for Heroes, which begins, "They died in their millions, young men at the Somme. And with them died their dreams for the world that they'd come from" - it was penned in the 1980s when Edwina Currie was a Minister at the Department of Health, in Mrs Thatcher's government, and she suggested that war widows - and others on meagre pensions - who couldn't afford to keep the heating on should knit themselves woollen garments to keep themselves warm. Originally there were 3 verses and Martin Carthy put a tune to them for Norma to sing with the Mrs Ackroyd - 2 more verses were subsequently added.

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