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The Courage Corporate: Adelaide Songs of World War One. Oakland Park, S. Aust: Pioneer Books in association with Academy Enterprises and Hermit Press, 1983. ISBN 0-908065-28-0 OCLC 19093270; Holden, Robert. And the Band Played On: How Music Lifted the Anzac Spirit in the Battlefields of the First World War. Richmond, Victoria: Hardie Grant ...
La Madelon or Quand Madelon, also known in English as Madelon (I'll Be True to the Whole Regiment) [1] is a French popular song of World War I. Although it is mostly known as La Madelon the proper title is Quand Madelon which are the beginning words of the refrain. The lyrics are by Louis Bousquet (1914) and the music by Camille Robert.
Sheet music cover Sculpture in Tipperary Town, Ireland, commemorating the song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (or "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary") is an English music hall song first performed in 1912 by Jack Judge, and written by Judge and Harry Williams, though authorship of the song has long been disputed.
The song consist of six stanzas telling of a tendency among the narrator's family males to take out the beloveds into, and conceive their children in, the titular sands. [8] [9] In America, most recognize the melody with completely different lyrics, as the theme song for the character Clarabell the Clown on the children's TV series Howdy Doody.
"There's a Long, Long Trail" is a popular song of World War I. The lyrics were by Stoddard King (1889–1933) and the music by Alonzo "Zo" Elliott, both seniors at Yale. [1] It was published in London in 1914, but a December 1913 copyright (which, like all American works made before 1923, has since expired) for the music is claimed by Zo Elliott.
John Hay wrote the lyrics. The piece was written for both voice and piano. The song, written in first person, takes on a positive tone. The lyrics detail the happiness and celebration that will be felt when the soldiers return home from war. [2] Another song published in 1918 with the same name had lyrics by John Hay and music by Calvin W ...
Sheet music from c. 1920 "Roses of Picardy" is a popular British song with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly and music by Haydn Wood.Published in London in 1916 by Chappell & Co, it was one of the most famous songs of the First World War and has been recorded frequently up to the present day.
"Over There" is a 1917 war song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with the United States military and the American public during World War I and World War II.Written shortly after the American entry into World War I, "Over There" is a patriotic propaganda song intended to galvanize American men to enlist in the American Expeditionary Forces and fight the Central Powers.