Show There were songs of home Keep the Home-fires Home burning While your hearts are yearning Tho your lads are far away They dream of home And love songs like like Rose of Sharron World War II was fought by a new generation Few were able to remember the horrors of war We were the good guys against obvious We Ve played the role to the hilt Each member of the military knew that it was his country his soil his family and his future he was fighting for and he was able to move mountains Communications were better than ever and a phrase spoken in the heat of battle might be picked up by a songwriter songwriter songwriter song song- writer the very next day Within a couple of weeks it was being sung everywhere When a Chaplain was pressed into service in a tight situation he was heard to say Praise the Lord and pass the This song of courage in n action came of it Praise the Lord and Pass the ammunition Praise the Lord were we're on a mighty mission Praise the Lord we aint goin a fishing Pass the ammunition and well we'll all stay free Comin in on a Wing Ving and a Prayer was another song which used an actual battlefield comment as its title Rosie the Riveter was a popular cheerful song about the great assistance given our fighting men by those at home The best marching song was borrowed from the British Known to us as The Bridge on the River Kwai Theme it was alway whistled Whistled I understand because the lyrics were just too dirty to make public One of the many love songs Dont Sit Under the Apple AppleTree AppleTree AppleTree Tree With Anyone Else but Me vie The Korean War or police action was a job to be done when everyone was tired of war The statistics were in We knew how much it had cost us to keep our free free- dom There were no rallying rallying rallying rally rally- ing songs no love songs no original songs All songs used were left left- overs The Viet N Nam am War was certainly the most devi- devi sive war There are still Hawks and Doves arguing about the appropriateness of our involvement The songs that came from that era were mostly protest songs Where Have All the Flowers Gone was beautifully sad as was that unhappy lament of a returned disabled veteran singing Ruby Dont Don't Take Your Love to Town We have enough war songs to last forever And some will twill last because of the quality of the music some because of the catch catch- iness of the lyrics and some simply because we dont don't want to forget Will we ever need more |