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Thread #34928   Message #475628
Posted By: The Walrus
03-Jun-01 - 07:04 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Bless 'Em All
Subject: RE: Help: Bless 'em All
Billy the Bus,

"Rob 'Em All" ? Go for it, scan away.

Toadfrog,

"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" Written and composed by A.J.Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott.
Copyright 1916 B.Feldman & Co. Ltd. London
I believe the copyright is now owned by EMI - at least they published the book I got the details from ("Oh It's A Lovely War", EMI, London, 1978, ISBM 0 86175 007 1).
On the subject of "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" , how about a Canadian version (from "Canadian Soldiers' Song Book" published by the YMCA during the Great War)

Take Me Back to Dear Canada - TUNE: "Cheers"

Take Me Back to Dear Canada,
Put me on the boat for old St. John,
Take me over there, drop me anywhere,
Toronto, Hull or Montreal, well I don't care.
I should love to see my best girl,
Cuddling up again we soon should be, Whoa,
Tiddley, iddley ighty, I'd sooner be there than Blighty,
Canada is the place for me.

Doubtless this song was heard much in Wales in 1919 when the Canadians were stationed there and couldn't get home.