I stumbled on this year old thread, searching for something else, and was surprise to see that no one mentioned one particular entire album of Robert Service set to music. In fact, though I'd heard Sam McGhee many years before, it was this album, picked up in a cut-out box at Korvettes in Newport News VA for $3, that brought me into the Robert Service world. And his WWI poems are the best. I once loaned this album to Bob Zentz after hearing him read Service at his store, Ramblin' Conrad's, and was astounded that someone as connected as him, and as big a fan of Service, had never heard of this album.

The album is titled "War, War, War", after the poem of the same name, and the performer, and writer of the music, is Country Joe McDonald (remember, of Country Joe and the Fish, of Woodstock, of "Gimme an F!")

It is a tremendous album: Le'envoi "I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes.."; War, War, War; Young Fellow, My Lad; Jean Deprez; The Army of the Dead; and others, including my favorite of all, "The Man From Athabaska", which I still sing on occasion.

rob derrick