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Remembrance Sunday/A meditation | |
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Start | 2015-11-11 |
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An Eric Bogle song - a lyrical meditation if you will - that evokes the realities of war more honestly than the official ceremonies with their obfuscating leitmotif of restrained pomp and militarism - sung appropriately here in both English and German
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Well how do you do, Private Willy McBride, CHORUS And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind CHORUS The sun's shining down on these green fields of France; CHORUS And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride, |
Relevant external links No Glory in War |
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