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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.
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 ...
The song was originally written as a lament from an Irish worker in London, missing his homeland. [citation needed] Unlike popular songs of previous wars (such as the Boer Wars), it did not incite soldiers to glorious deeds, instead concentrating on the longing for home (as with the period song "Keep the Home Fires Burning"). [citation needed]
Sheet music was available for piano, band, orchestra, and male quartette as well as for talking machine or player piano. In 1918, both Victor Records (VI18510) and Columbia Records (A-2530) issued recordings of the song by Arthur Fields and the Peerless Quartet. The musical score was reprinted in a war edition. [4]
"The Quartermaster's Store" is a traditional song from England.It is Roud Folk Song Index no. 10508. [1] The origins of both tune and words are uncertain. It was sung by British and ANZAC soldiers during World War I, [2] [3] [4] but may be an older song of the prewar British regular army, [3] or even have origins dating back to the English Civil War in the 17th century. [4]
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.