WWII songs

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 03:28 PM

Dear Mr "Walrus"

Thank you for your observations re: "Who do you Think.You Are Kidding Mr. Hitler?".which was - as you pointed out performed solo by Bud Flanagan.

I didn't know that it was written as late as 1960!.

I have been racking my brains trying to think of other WW11 songs that were sung in those far off days.

Maybe the "doodlebug that was dropped at the end of our street and which blew all the windows and doors out of our house.(and we were sheltering under the stairs, right next to the gas meter!!)

That could have affected my memory!

Anyway thanks for putting me straight.

Remember me to the "Carpenter" when next you see him!!

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Jeanene
Date: 04 Sep 01 - 04:46 PM

Would "Dona, Dona" be considered a WWII song?

I did get a book from the library that had a lot of Jewish songs -- mostly in Yiddish -- about the Holocaust and WWII. Naturally, most of these are not happy songs, but some, like "Dona, Dona" and the German "Die Gedanken Sind Frei," are defiant and/or a tribute to the strength of the desire for freedom and the struggle to overcome oppression.

Jeanene

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 01:10 AM

refresh for guest looking for songs for her classes' tribute

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 07:04 PM

"Bless 'Em All" (or, more properly, "Fuck 'Em All"), tho popular during W.W. II (especially, IIRC, in the U.S. Air Force), is a good deal older & is British in origin.

Does anyone know who wrote "The Second Front Song"? To me, it is one of the most impressive songs to come out of the war. I don't mean to say that I heard it during the war -- I was a little boy in California then. I heard it at the Ballads & Blues Society in London in 1959, and then in Ewan MacColl's collection.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Genie
Date: 02 Nov 01 - 03:53 PM

refresh for folks looking for Veterans' Day song lists

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Tweed
Date: 02 Nov 01 - 08:37 PM

Here's a couple you can listen to if you got some time on your hands. They're from the Library of Congress' Fort Valley State College Folk festival recordings in 1943. This is Mr. Buz Ezell doin' "Roosevelt and Hitler" parts one and two. They're rough as cobs but good recordings of his songs just the same. You just gotta listen a little closer to make 'em out. Windows Media plays 'em pretty good.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 04 Nov 01 - 07:32 AM

Joe F.

Regarding "The Second Front Song". Martin Pages book "The (bawdy) Songs and Ballads of World War ii" (originally published as "Kiss me Goodnight, Sergeant Major..") gives Ewan McColl as the author.

Regards

p.s. Its striking, incidentally, how many of the songs were fitted to "The Mountains of Mourne" air.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,wildlone
Date: 04 Nov 01 - 01:44 PM

For Soldiers songs you can try Click here
This page has

D day Dodgers with a verse that I have not heard sung before. {found on this site Click here
dave

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Nov 01 - 11:50 AM

MartinRyan: Thanks very much for looking that up. Further light on what MacColl did during the war!

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: masato sakurai
Date: 05 Nov 01 - 06:51 PM

The name "Ewan McColl" [sic] is given also at the end of the lyrics of "The Second Front Song" in Martin Page, Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major (Panther, 1973, p. 146)[MartinRyan's original], but MacColl says in notes to Bundook Ballads: Ewan MacColl (Topic 12T 130):

THE SECOND FRONT SONG By 1944 a good deal of hostility had arisen between British troops and American soldiers based in the British Isles. A good deal of this was the result of the difference in spending power between the troops of the two nations. Although the tune is well known in Scotland under the title of Musselborough Fair, the song is said to be the work of a group of English soldiers serving in a regiment of The Black Watch. By 1945 the song had become a signal for a free fight and it was consequently outlawed in all pubs patronised by troops. On V.E. night, a riot was narrowly averted in Leeds, Yorkshire, when troops numbering more than a thousand defied the authorities by singing it in the civic centre.

And, according to Ewan MacColl: songmaker (Introduction to The Essential Ewan MacColl by Peggy Seeger),

"He was a contortionist in some cases and, for reasons best known to himself, often did not claim authorship of certain songs which family and friends know are unarguably his." Ivor", "The Second Front Song", "Browned Off' are three that spring immediately to mind. Of course, it is possible that he wrote them with other people. But when he sang them onstage, he would never say whose songs they were or where he had learned them (a sure sign with Ewan, for he would always credit the maker if he knew who it was. And his memory was infallible). He would rarely say, onstage, 'This is a song I wrote' or 'This is one of my songs'. "

~Masato

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 Nov 01 - 11:55 AM

Masato Sakurai: Thanks very much for the additional information. MacColl seems to have been quite the slyboots: "...is said to be..." (but not, of course, by me!). %^)

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Genie
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 12:22 AM

So, Joe F,

"Bless 'Em All" (or, more properly, "Fuck 'Em All"), ... is a good deal older... .

How old is it?   And what were the earlier lyrics. (Did they include,
"You'll get no promotion this side of the ocean...?")

Genie

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: The Walrus
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 07:48 PM

Genie,

Re: "Bless 'Em All"
Lewis Winstock was told by some Chelsea Pensioners that the song "was current" in the army during the last decade of the 19th Century.
According to Roy Palmer, it was written (or just first written down) by one Fred Godfrey of the RNAS, and the popular arrangement was written in about 1940 by Jimmy Hughes and Frank Lake.

(all culled from Roy Palmer's "What a Lovely War")

Regards

Walrus

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Laurent
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 05:38 PM

One last (?) word about the song "Auprès de ma blonde".

The song goes back to the early 18thcentury. It seems to have been known since 1704 as "Le prisonnier de Hollande". "Auprès de ma blonde" was the French foot soldiers' marching song at the battle of Denain (July 1712), during the war of the Spanish Succession.

(Being French, I apologize for my poor English).

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Leadfingers
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 08:57 PM

I have 'The Airmens Songbook' lots of RFC and RAF songs , One I DO like is Heinkel Come Back to Me,a parody of Lover come Back to Me.
Words availablle on request.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Genie
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 02:23 AM

Merci, Laurent, pour l'histoire de la chanson "Aupr쳌s De Ma Blonde." V™tre Anglais est mieux que ma Fran쳌ais, bien sžr. J'ai cru que cette chanson etait plus vieux que le vingtieme Ciecle, mais je n'ai pas su quand les Fran쳌ais ont fait la guerre avec les Hollandais.

Genie (Jeanene)

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Santa
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 06:53 AM

Bloody Orkneys

"...no bloody girls, no bloody beer..." and so on for several verses.

It doubtless had many versions with other placenames!

The Fleet Air Arm Museum sells a songbook of FAA, mainly WW2, songs. There are others (including the A25 song) in Cyril Tawney's The Grey Funnel Line.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 04:13 PM

Fred Godfrey may well have written "Bless 'em All" in 1916 as Roy Palmer (and others) have maintained, but no one seems to have published this putative "ur-text." Nor have I come across a contemporary reference to anybody singing the song during World War I.
If Palmer's is pukka gen, a Great War version is out there. But is it? As for Winstock's pensioners (more than one or two?) they were thinking back sixty years or more and may simply have been mistaken. It is significant that Winstock provides no early text in "Songs and Music of the Redcoats," his well-researched book on pre-1914 British military music.

At any rate, part of the melody of "Bless 'em All" strongly resembles that of the popular World War I song, "I Want to Go Home," credited to Canadian Lieutenant Gitz Rice.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: toadfrog
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 10:38 PM

GUEST: When I asked about that earlier, on THIS THREAD, the response seemed to be that Godfrey's version was not printed because it was not considered printable in its day. And also, that Godfrey only wrote down a song already long in circulation. There has sure been an enormous change in my lifetime, which is getting to seem long but is but nothing to the geologist, in attitudes about what is printable be printed and what isn't.

Of course all this does not prove the song is old. But the songs words are not about World War II, so it seems implausible it was written then.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,lighter
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 04:50 PM

TOADFROG: Yes, the Indian army subject matter of "Bless 'em All" in its widely known WWII version does suggest a pre-war origin, and, further, that Hughes & Lake may have just tidied up a saltier original and added new stanzas of their own.(The Indian army references appear only in stanza 1 and, presumably, in the chorus : "no promotion this side of the ocean." My point is simply that the Fred Godfrey/WW I origin has been repeated for decades (at least since C. H. Ward-Jackson's "The Airman's Songbook" (1945), but no one has provided the slightest evidence that it is true; nor is there a text of any sort collected or sung before 1940. I may well have missed something, but I've never come across even a first-person recollection of singing or hearing the song in any form before WW II.

The word "airman" alone in the 1940 version hardly guarantees an RFC/RAF origin. Hughes & Lake might have changed it from "swaddy" or "soldier" or, if the RN is invoked, "sailor" or "matlow." (Just speculating here, of course.)

Now for a positive turn. Harry Morgan's "More Rugby Songs" contains a short lyric, seemingly of British cavalry origin, called "F*** 'Em All." It doesn't scan well to the Hughes & Lake tune, but is perhaps relevant for two reasons. First, Ward-Jackson's WW II text contains a stanza about the British cavalry. Second, Legman somewhere observes that Morgan included some texts (he doesn't say which ones) from a mimeographed collection of bawdy Indian army cavalry songs compiled 1939 - 1940. Further info not at hand. IF the Morgan song is pre-WWII, it could be the progenitor of the well-known "Bless 'em All" in its infinite permutations. In that case, though, Hughes & Lake would seem to have rewritten and reset the old song till it was essentially a new creation.

If anyone wants to investigate further (and they should), I wish them luck.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Peggles
Date: 16 Apr 03 - 03:12 AM

Steve'
Last line to "Washing" "Here's a song that we all sing and it will make you laugh".

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Compton
Date: 18 Apr 03 - 07:49 PM

Just a thought !...I heard a record some while ago called "Come On Boys"...which had a fair number of Bawdy(ish) songs on..I think Dave Townsend (and the Sods Chorus??)had some thing to do with it. Cant remember all the tracks but a new version of Bloody Orkney was on it!

Subject: Lyr Add: COOK 'EM ALL
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Apr 03 - 08:16 PM

Here's a version of Bless 'em all I cooked up a couple of moths ago, when there were stories about how cooks in the British Army were having to provide instruction on fighting, because of shortages of trained instructors.

Cook 'em all, cook 'em all,
Now the cookies have answered the call.
Cook all the sergeants and the officers too,
And cook all their privates to serve in a stew.
They say that we're headed away to the East
Though we'd much sooner go down the pub,
There's some bugger called Bush says it's time for a push,
Though we'd rather be dishing up grub.

Here we go, cheerio,
You might think we are marching too slow,
But the British divisions need ample provisions,
To be fit for to fight with the foe,
I hear that the tanks that we got from the Yanks
Are inclined to get stuck in the sand,
But with bangers and mash we will cut quite a dash,
So they need us to give them a hand.

Cook em all, cook em all,
The long and the short and the tall,
They're cooking up something and it seems it's a war,
So it's time to get stuck in, like always before.
But are we downhearted or are we distressed?
Why no, we'll be having a ball,
For cookie is always at home in a mess.
So cheer up me lads, cook 'em all.

Subject: Lyr Add: FUCK 'EM ALL
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 18 Apr 03 - 08:37 PM

"Bless 'Em All" (Fuck 'em All) is listed in the Traditional Ballad Index cufresno. It is dated 1916 and credited to F. Godfrey?

Much more discussion, and several versions, are given by Ed Cray in his "Erotic Muse." Ewan MacColl noted that this song has "been the anthem of British Fighting Men since World War 1. Anthony Hopkins, 1979, "Songs From the Front and Rear," p. 105, credits the song to F. Godfrey, 1916, and linked with the Royal Naval Air Service.
The song was not copyrighted until 1940, by Hughes and Lake, as noted in posts above.

Of the several versions, Cray gives pride of place to the British Army version. The first verse is essentially the same as the WW2 British version in the DT, but with the "Fuck 'Em All" chorus.

FUCK 'EM ALL

They say there's a troopship just leaving Bombay,
Bound for old Blighty's shore,
Heavily laden with time-expired men
Bound for the land they adore.
There's many a soldier has finished his time;
There's many a twerp signin' on,
But they'll get no promotion this side of the ocean,
So cheer up, my lads, fuck 'em all.

Chorus;
Fuck 'em all, fuck 'em all,
The long and the short and the tall.
Fuck all the corporals and W. O. Ones,
'Cause we're sayin' good-by to them all,
As back to the billet we crawl.
They'll get no promotion this side of the ocean,
So cheer up, my lads, fuck 'em all.

Alternate chorus:
Fuck 'em all, fuck 'em all,
The long and the short and the tall.
Fuck all the sergeants and their bleedin' sons,
Fuck all the corp'rals and W.O. ones,
'Cause we're sayin' good-by to them all,
As back to the billet we crawl.
They'll get no promotion this side of the ocean,
So cheer up, my lads, fuck 'em all.

Cray also prints a variation on the Lancaster version of WW2 (in the DT):

They say there's a Lancaster leaving the Ruhr,
Bound for old Blighty's shores,
Heavily laden with terrified men,
Shit-scared and prone on the floor.
There's many a flak gun shooting them down,
There's many a night fighter, too,
But there'll be no promotions,
This side of the ocean,
So, cheer up my lads, fuck 'em all.

Chorus:
Fuck 'em all, fuck 'em all,
The long and the short and the tall.
Fuck all the sergeants and WO-1s,
Fuck all the corporals and their bastard sons,
For we are saying good-by to them all,
The long and the short and the tall,
There'll be no promotions this side of the ocean,
So, cheer up my lads, fuck 'em all.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,lighter
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 02:32 PM

Q: When Cray, Hopkins and others ascribe "Bless 'em All" to Fred Godfrey, 1916, they merely repeat an assertion made by Ward-Jackson in 1945 (see above). There seems to be no available evidence for this claim beyond hearsay. It may well be true, but what is the real basis of the claim? All we know is that Hughes and Lake copyrighted their British version in 1940, making the song an immediate hit, and that other, quite insipid, pop versions followed. The burden of proof, which may still be met by someone, rests upon those who simply ASSERT the song's existence before that date. (Use of the melody may indicate that it, at least, really was in the public domain, but we still need evidence.)

"Bless 'em All" was one of the best-known melodies of the 20th century. It would be nice to know more about the song's history.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 03:39 PM

Agreed, there are lots of songs which supposedly have long white beards, but documentation is lacking. I quoted Cray and Hopkins, but there is nothing beyond their anecdotal, unsupported evidence.
We have just about lost all WW1 soldiers, the only hope for verification is in their notes and letters, which upon their deaths their descendants consign to trash.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: toadfrog
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 07:06 PM

Well, it is a mysterious song, because the tune is a remarkably good one, and sounds like it has to come from an older dance tune, to which someone then wrote a military parody. It is just too good a tune to have been invented by an anonymous soldier at some anonymous time. People who invent tunes that good, in recent times, have not normally remained anonymous. And I respectfully suggest that if someone can locate the sheet music for that tune, so that we know when the tune was popular, we have the key to when the song itself originated.

Someone once told me there was a Spanish song, transl. "I Like them All." Is that a concept for anyone?

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 08:08 PM

I once heard a full British Military Band play "Bless 'Em All," with strong emphasis on drums as they marched along. I could believe a band music origin as well.
I agree, it is a song that sticks to your guts and brain and odd that we haven't a clue as to a starting point.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 19 Apr 03 - 08:49 PM

Who was Fred Godfrey? Could he have been the popular composer? A Fred Godfrey was composer, with A. J. Mills and Bennett Scott of the 1916 hit song, "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty." Published by Chappell Music, London.
From a useful list of WW1 songs at: WW1 Songs
He is listed as composer of "Come Lads and Lasses," (Arr.?) of "Lucy Long," Arr. for piano 1925 "Patience," and arr. works by Grieg for piano. "Meet Me, Jenny, When the Sun Goes Down" (with Murphy and Castling, attrib. ?), "Have You Got Another Girl At Home Like Mary?" by A. J. Lawrence and Fred Godfrey (1908). Billy Williams (Australian) collaborated with Fred Godfrey for a time on popular tunes.

Words to "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" at Blighty

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 20 Apr 03 - 10:47 PM

Interesting essay and songs. "Songs of the Air Force in the Vietnam War." Lydia Fish. Vietnam Songs

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 08:10 PM

Just to note someone wrote keep the campfires burning. Maybe you are singing a different song but I wonder if you should be singing keep the home-fires burning!

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: mg
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 10:31 PM

I suspect he or she meant

keep the home-fires burning
while your hearts are yearning,
though the lads are far away they dream of home
there's a silver lining
through each dark cloud shining
turn the dark cloud inside out till the boys come home.

I used to have a clip of John McCormack playing that..don't think I still do but search around the internet and you might find it . It is an absolutely great song/singer combination. mg

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: mg
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 10:47 PM

I did find it and search around this web site and you will find it too..just type in keep the home-fires burning john mccormack and it is one of the first..

but here is a recording of Christmas sounds in the German trenches in WWI....someone probably was playing a record...

http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/germanxmas.htm

this is an amazing site...lots of old WWI songs..

mg

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: LadyJean
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 12:31 AM

From a lady who was a young girl during WWII.

"Around the corner, and under a tree,
A gallant soldier made love to me.
He kissed me once and then he kissed me twice.
It wasn't exactly the thing to do, but golly it was nice!"


My father said that the unofficial motto of the First Armored division wasn't love 'em and leave 'em, but Screw and Bolt. That was the one and only dirty joke my father ever told me. I thought it shoudl be preserved for posterity.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 06:25 PM

My mother used to sing "Around the Corner" in the 1940s, with some other phrase (maybe "sugar daddy") in place of "gallant soldier". It was an infinite song -- you went straight back from "it was nice" to "around the corner". I suspect it is a good deal older than WW II.

A tale in journalistic circles (possibly apocryphal) has it that at the old New York _Graphic_, a story about an escapee from an asylum who committed a rape was barely prevented, by a vigilant editor, from appearing under the headline "Nut Bolts and Screws". Ick.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Q
Date: 21 Oct 03 - 07:27 PM

Around the corner and under a tree,
A sergeant major ---
A gallant sailor ---
A hardhead soldier ---
A Bengali lady ---
A Malay lady ---
A Tamil lady ---
A Chinese lady ---
etc.

Definitely sung in WW1. Older? British? American?
Certainly everyone knows it.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: MartinRyan
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 08:06 AM

I recently picked up a little booklet called "The Army Song Book". The fly leaf reads:
____________________________
Compiled by THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE in collaboration wiht THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS and published by order of the SECRETARY OF WAR.

This book is the property of the United States Government and its contents may be used only wiothin the military services.

1941
_______________________________-

It is also rubber-stamped as follows:

SPECIAL SERVICE OFFICE HQRS., THIRD ARMY.

I suspect the versions contined bear little resemblance to what was actually sung!

Regards

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 06:54 PM

When I was the secretary of my student house at Caltech, 1955-1958, I inherited a stack of papers from my predecessors that included a mimeographed book called SERENADE: "From South Pacific to North China" & put out by the U.S. Marine Corps (Aviation). I copied a few songs from it, none of them a war song:

Ala Boogy
Daughter of the Rabbi (= Harlot of Jerusalem)
Shanty Town

Too bad I didn't steal it.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: The Walrus
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 07:53 PM

Joe_F,

The version of the story I'd heard was the escaped lunatic raped a laundry-woman, the headline being 'Nut screws washer and bolts' - Definitely apocryphal I'd say.

Guest,O,
If your song is pre-WW2, with the references to Begalis,Tamils and Malays, I'd suspect that it's not American.

One song my late Father recounted to me, from the WWII period (possibly picked up from GIs - from the 'Pride of New York' reference) was a parody of 'In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree'

"In the shade of the old apple tree
"Where two lovely white legs I could see
"And right at the top
"A nice little spot,
"I knew it spelled Heaven to me."

"So I pulled out the Pride of New York
"And it fitted her just like a cork
"Then I said "Please don't scream"
"As I turned on the cream
"'Neath the shade of that old apple tree."

Any use?

Walrus

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,James
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:27 PM

My dad use to sing the following..can anyone tell me more about this song..I only know one verse..is it from one of the wars. My dad was Canadian, is it a canadian song or poem..
It is only an old bit of bunting,
It is only an old coloured rag;
But many have died for it's honour
And shed their best blood for our flag.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:53 PM

Walrus, I don't know where it started out, but "Around the corner" was sung, with different words, by troops from both sides of the pond. The verses about Tamil, etc. were from an English site and would not have been known to most American troops. I know that they were never sung by my father (American, WW1). Unfortunately I remember few of his lyrics which, at the time, were "unprintable."

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,don
Date: 23 Jun 04 - 05:04 PM

i'm looking for the name of a war song and who sings it? it goes something like this:

my war ribbons i'll send home to you,
darling ther red ,there white and there blue.
if my love for you is dead
wear my ribbons made of red.
if my love for you is true
wear my ribbons made of blue
and if you may or if you might
wear my ribbons made of white.

if anyone could please help me.thank you don

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Lighter (w/o cookie)
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 05:38 PM

Hey, big breakthrough in "Bless 'em All" studies!

Head for the Library of Congress's "American Memory" page and navigate to Captain Leighton Robinson's performance of a 19th C. music-hall song called "A-Roodle-Tum-Toodle-Tum-Too." With a few strategic alterations, this is unmistakably the melody we now associate with "Bless 'em All." The words, of course, are unrelated.

Robinson learned the song on his first voyage to sea -- in 1888.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Lindsay
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 04:52 AM

"Room Five Hundred and Four" is probably my favourite World War Two song

some other suggestions

"He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings"
"Tell Them We All Died Game" (from Australia)

and this one, in tribute to our American allies:

Thanks, Mr Roosevelt, its swell of you
For the way you're helping us to carry on
We'll see the British Empire smiling through
When at last these dark and stormy days have gone
And Frankin, by the way, please convey
Our congratulations to the folks in USA
We're saying thanks, Mr Roosevelt, we're proud of you
For the way you're helping us to carry on.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From:
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 01:15 AM

I am trying to find a song from WW11 my Uncle seved on the USS DUFILO 423 he is asking about this song he remembers it playing when he was in the war all he can tell us is something about where's Annie he is a stroke patient and is unable to communicate I am trying to find this for him. Is ther anyone out there that can help

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: Bert
Date: 31 Dec 04 - 02:37 PM

I found this with a google search. Dunno if it's the one though.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From:
Date: 16 Jul 05 - 12:55 PM

Does anyone on here have the lyrics to "When the Lights Come on Again?" I've searched the Internet for about 2 years without success and have also made vain attempts to locate them in a few libraries. Would be most grateful for any assistance in this endeavor.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN
From: GUEST,ragdall
Date: 17 Jul 05 - 07:20 AM

I found this version, here:

WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN (ALL OVER THE WORLD)
by Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, Bennie Benjemen, ©1942
As sung by Vaughn Monroe

*When the lights go on again all over the world,
And the boys are home again all over the world,
And rain or snow is all that may fall from the skies above,
A kiss won't mean "goodbye" but "Hello" to love.

When the lights go on again all over the world,
And the ships will sail again all over the world,
Then we'll have time for things like wedding rings and free hearts will sing,
When the lights go on again all over the world.

Is that the one?
rags

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Feb 06 - 06:14 PM

Shotgun Boogie was a hit in 1950.

Subject: RE: WWII songs
From: GUEST,Shelley
Date: 19 Apr 06 - 03:51 PM

Does anyone know the lyrics and, indeed, the correct title to the song

"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?"

My daughter is doing a highschool history project and needs to know the lyrics to this song as it has historical relevance to a subject they are studying.

Anyone's help would be most sincerely appreciated...thanks.

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