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What A Lovely War" ~ The Jolly Old Fellows
On August 3rd 1914 Germany invaded Belgium. Britain protests
the violation of Belgian neutrality, guaranteed by a treaty, the German
Chancellor replied that the treaty is just 'a chiffon de papier' (a scrap of
paper). Britain declared War on Germany on August 4th 1914. The War lasted 4
years and spread to become a World War. By the end of the war, four major
imperial powers—the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires
ceased to exist and 10 Million men had died.
'Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire' with music by Oliver Wakeman
"Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire" is a war song of
World War I. The song sarcastically recounts the location of various army
members, not to be found in the combat zone, and concludes by describing the
location of the old battalion: "hanging on the old barbed wire". This
troop song was not popular with the officer class, who thought it bad for
morale, though attempts to suppress it were unsuccessful.
WW1 Soldier Song ~ 'That's the Wrong Way to Tickle Mary'
Soldiers liked to add their own verses and this one
celebrated French kissing one of the many delights they discovered while in
France!
That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss,
Don't you know that over here, lad
They like it best like this,
Hooray pour Les Francais
Farewell Angleterre.
We didn't know how to tickle Mary,
But we learnt how over there.
That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss,
Don't you know that over here, lad
They like it best like this,
Hooray pour Les Francais
Farewell Angleterre.
We didn't know how to tickle Mary,
But we learnt how over there.
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