What the new Italy forum needs is the "D Day Dodgers"! http://www.soldierssongs.com/sounds/window...eed/dodgers.htm
That's the only version of "Lili Marlene" that I know. The writer of the original song died last year.
Originally posted by Kiwiwriter@Aug 30 2004, 03:41 PM That's the only version of "Lili Marlene" that I know. The writer of the original song died last year. [post=27859]Quoted post[/post] 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"
Originally posted by kieron hill@Aug 30 2004, 03:26 PM Cheers Beppo! I've read so much about this song it was great to hear. Thanks Kieron [post=27856]Quoted post[/post] There are very many versions Kieron. Put "D Day Dodgers" into a search engine.
Originally posted by BeppoSapone+Aug 30 2004, 03:48 PM-->(BeppoSapone @ Aug 30 2004, 03:48 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-kieron hill@Aug 30 2004, 03:26 PM Cheers Beppo! I've read so much about this song it was great to hear. Thanks Kieron [post=27856]Quoted post[/post] There are very many versions Kieron. Put "D Day Dodgers" into a search engine. [post=27862]Quoted post[/post] [/b] Here is another: http://www.warlinks.com/jackcull/ddodgers.htm
Originally posted by BeppoSapone+Aug 30 2004, 04:46 PM-->(BeppoSapone @ Aug 30 2004, 04:46 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Kiwiwriter@Aug 30 2004, 03:41 PM That's the only version of "Lili Marlene" that I know. The writer of the original song died last year. [post=27859]Quoted post[/post] 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" [post=27861]Quoted post[/post] [/b] 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."
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" [post=27861]Quoted post[/post] [/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." [post=27886]Quoted post[/post] [/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
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 [post=27887]Quoted post[/post] [/quote] Maybe Malcolm, or one of the other Scots members, can translate?
I had the honour of meeting Hamish when he worked at The School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh Uni and I have sung both songs. A translation, now there's a challenge Tony. Aye Malcolm
for more info see http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/d_d...odgers_01.shtml an article by Prof Richard Holmes. Aye MalcolmII
Here is a version sang by the Argyles(AKA the Agile and Suffering Highlanders) in Italy and comments by "Mad" Mitch!!!! As the evening wore on I felt more and more relaxed in their company, and as visitors called in from other companies and one or two started to sing I realized that here, at last, I was enjoying what I had read about, that camaraderie which comes on the eve of battle and is part of the heritage of the fighting soldier. One of the songs was so poignant that I ultimately wrote the words down. It was sung to the tune of the German Afrika Korps song Lili Marlene and it ran: We’re the D-day Dodgers out in Italy, Always drinking the vino and always on the spree Eight Army Shirkers and the yanks, We live in Rome and dodge the tanks – We are the D-day Dodgers, The boys whom D-Day dodged We Hope the boys in France will soon be getting leave After six months service, it’s a shame they are not relived We can carry on for two or three more years And nobody need shed any tears – For we’re the D-day Dodgers Out in Italy If you look round the mountains through the mud and rain, You'll see rows of crosses, some which bear no name. Heartbreak and toils and suffering gone, The boys beneath, they linger on— They were some of the D-Day dodgers And they're still in Italy. There were several versions of this song, varying in ribaldry, but they all expressed the same bitterness. The 8th Army felt that its thankless task – as Churchill put it, “dragging the hot rake of war up the length of Italy” – was unappreciated at home, where all eyes had been upon D-day in Normandy and the advance into Germany. Mitchell, Lt Col Colin, Having Been A Soldier, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1969 PP 34-5
As sung by The McCalmans Tune: Farewell to the Creeks I have on tape the version by the McCalmans. I also have a version of "Farewell to the Creeks by the Corries, what is errie is that you can hear the sound of the feet of of the Audience marching in time to the tune. Unfortunately I do not software to convert to MP3 I also have on an album "the D-day dodgers" as sung by the Spinners. However, all three tunes are, for me at least, very powerful ones