From: Ronald Gillen (gillen@NCONNECT.NET)
Date: Fri Apr 09 1999 - 18:12:24 PDT
I remember standing at a DAV post bar in Cleveland singing this song with DAV convention attendees in 1950. The veterans were from the North African Campaign and I was in uniform as a Army National Guardsman (AAA) attending summer encampment at Camp Perry, Ohio. It mattered not to them that I was not regular army as long as I was in an army uniform. What nostalgia !!! The three URL's below answer questions and include Marlene Dietrich singing a verse. http://home.inreach.com/hancock/lili.html http://ingeb.org/Lieder/lilimarl.html http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Bungalow/1089/lili.html Regards ..... Ron Gillen ====================================================== Sinclair Hart wrote: > > It is news to me that Lili Marlene may have been sung during WWI. Lala > Anderson's version touched the hearts of the German soldiers in North > Africa, and did the same thing for the allies later. I remember the > heart-rending words and feelings the song evoked when overseas and far > away from loved ones. In May of 1945, we were living in captured German > barracks in Regensburg, guarding General Patton's headquaters at the end > of WWII. On the plaster walls of the barracks' stairs were words from > Lili Marlene " Schon rief der posten, Sie bliesen Zapfenstreif. Es kann > drei tage kosten, cam'rade ich komm ja gleich. Not sure what > Zapfenstreif was, which the "postebn" was calling. But the warning in > the next words is "It can cost you three days (presumably in the > guardhouse), and the answer "I'm coming right away, my friend". If > there are those who know German, I hope they will complete the > translation. > > Ronald Gillen wrote: > > > Tim Merry wrote: > > > > > > ============= snip ========================================== > > > "Underneath the lamp-light, by the barrack gate..." > > > (title was LILI MARLENE, originally a German song - > > > 'Unter der Laterne, etc' - which the British 8th Army > > > in North Africa seem to have adopted. I think that's > > > the story.) > > ================= snip ======================================== > > > > Tim, > > > > If my memory serves me correctly LILI MARLENE was a WWI song that > > carried on into WWII as it was popular with soldiers from both sides > > sung in both english and german. > > > > Regards ..... Ron Gillen