30-08-2004, 10:19 PM
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 | What the new Italy forum needs is the "D Day Dodgers"!  http://www.soldierssongs.com/sounds/window...eed/dodgers.htm |
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30-08-2004, 10:26 PM
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 | Cheers Beppo! I've read so much about this song it was great to hear. Thanks Kieron
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30-08-2004, 10:41 PM
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|  That's the only version of "Lili Marlene" that I know. The writer of the original song died last year.
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30-08-2004, 10:46 PM
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He was Hamish Hamilton. He also wrote the well known song about the 51st Highland Division leaving Sicily to return to Britain to take part in the Normandy landings. To the tune "Farewell to the Creeks" | |
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30-08-2004, 10:48 PM
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There are very many versions Kieron. Put "D Day Dodgers" into a search engine. | |
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30-08-2004, 11:01 PM
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| [quote=BeppoSapone,Aug 30 2004, 03:46 PM] Quote:
He was Hamish Hamilton. Henderson, not Hamilton. Hey, it's late! | |
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31-08-2004, 05:12 PM
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http://www.warlinks.com/jackcull/ddodgers.htm | |||
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31-08-2004, 07:00 PM
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I think I know that song: "So fare ye well ye bloody hills Fare ye well, ye valley and shaw. There's none who'll mourn the kyles of ye Puir bloody Jocks are weary."
__________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com | |||
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31-08-2004, 08:18 PM
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| He was Hamish Henderson. He also wrote the well known song about the 51st Highland Division leaving Sicily to return to Britain to take part in the Normandy landings. To the tune "Farewell to the Creeks" [/quote] I think I know that song: "So fare ye well ye bloody hills Fare ye well, ye valley and shaw. There's none who'll mourn the kyles of ye Puir bloody Jocks are weary." [/quote] That's the one. However, like the "D Day Dodgers" the words can vary a bit. Here is the whole thing: http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/f/fawelsic.html |
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31-08-2004, 08:19 PM
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| That's the one. However, like the "D Day Dodgers" the words can vary a bit. Here is the whole thing: http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/f/fawelsic.html [/quote] Maybe Malcolm, or one of the other Scots members, can translate? |
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