From: hmemor@YOUTH.NET
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 14:05:02 PDT
From: ianhp@dropd.worldonline.co.uk I came across this site while researching Lily Marlene. Some fascinating material here. I noticed a couple of errors, though (which I noticed because music is my line of work). 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone' was not a WWII song but was written in 1955 by the great US folksinger Pete Seeger, who based it on lines from 'And Quiet Flows The Don', a novel by Soviet author Mikhail Sholokhov. The song was later made famous in the 1960s by Peter, Paul and Mary. There *was* a WWII song called 'D-Day Dodgers', but unfortunately no one has been able to recover any words to it except the refrain. The words included in a previous posting were written by Hamish Henderson of the School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, after WWII, because he thought it was a pity to lose the song altogether. A fine set of words he wrote, too. Ian Harvey-Pittaway website http://ianhp.tripod.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: timewitnesses-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/