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Hidden Residence Songs

04 Sep 00 - 07:10 PM (#291009)
Subject: Hidden Residence Songs
From: lloyd64

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During WWII the occupied countries had residence songs that had hidden meanings. I only know one, it's about the UM-PA-PA band that marched into Denmark, and how no one like the band so they waited for the day when they could send the band marching back home. I'm sure there are others. Maybe other times in history people had hidden residence songs. Can anyone help?


04 Sep 00 - 07:21 PM (#291014)
Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: Midchuck

Do you mean "resistance?"


04 Sep 00 - 07:25 PM (#291020)
Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: lloyd64

Resistance, right. Thanks


05 Sep 00 - 06:01 PM (#291614)
Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: Helen

I think there are a lot of Irish songs like that. I'm not sure but I think Roisin Dhu/Black Rose is one of them, where the rose is used to refer to Ireland. I also think that Four Green Fields might be one too. There will be Mudcats who know more about it than me. I'm not a singer so I don't know the words of songs very well.

Helen


05 Sep 00 - 06:24 PM (#291633)
Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: Sorcha

Would "Follow the Drinking Gourd" fit in this category? Or "Jimmy Crack Corn"? And, surely, there are Bonnie Prince Charlie songs like this. What about the fiddle tune, "White Cockade"?


05 Sep 00 - 06:29 PM (#291637)
Subject: RE: Hidden Residence Songs
From: Rick Fielding

When the Jacobites sang about "Geordie Whelps ridin' on a goosie" they were treading on thin ice.

Rick