Research Catalog

Title

Songs from the front & rear : Canadian servicemen's songs of the Second World War / Anthony Hopkins.

Publication

Edmonton : Hurtig, ©1979.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Hopkins, Anthony, 1941-

Description

192 pages : illustrations, music; 28 cm

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Geschichte 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Songs and music, Canadian
• Soldatenlied
• Anthologie
• Kanada

Genre/Form

• Bawdy songs
• Chansons paillardes.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 188).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A-25 -- Admiralty house supper song -- Alliford Bay -- Artillery alphabet -- Athabaskan's finish -- The ball of Kirriemuir -- A band of banshee airmen -- The battle of Halifax -- Beer is best -- Bell-bottom trousers -- The bells of hell -- Beneath the barber pole -- Bless 'em all -- Bless 'em all-Corvettes -- Bless 'em all-Lancasters -- Bless 'em all-Wellingtons -- The blackbird -- The bold aviator -- Bollocky Bill the sailor -- Bunch of bastards -- Cats on the rooftops -- Caviar song -- The chandler's shop -- Christmas day in the workhouse -- Christopher Columbo -- Cocaine Bill and Morphine Sue -- D-Day dodgers -- Don't send me home -- Drunk last night -- The fighting 43rd -- The first thing they asked for -- Flying fortresses -- 413 Squadron -- 417's lament -- Get hold of this -- Girls of the King's Navy -- Glenwhorple Highlanders -- Good ship Venus -- The great wheel -- Green grow the rushes -- The gunner's lament -- Has anyone seen the Colonel? -- He ain't gonna jump no more -- He'll never fly home again -- Here's to good old beer -- Hitler has only got one ball -- How ashamed I was -- How ashamed I was-WD version -- How the money rolls in -- I don't want no more of Navy life -- I don't want to be a soldier -- I was chasing one-elevens -- I'd like to find the sergeant -- If I were a merry maid -- It's the syme the whole world over -- I've got sixpence -- The jolly tinker.
• (Cont.): Kafusalem -- The King's Navy -- Kiss me good-night, Sergeant-Major -- Knees up, Mother Brown -- Lament -- Lay that Luger down -- Let's have a party -- Lilli Marlene -- Lulu -- Lydia Pink -- Mademoiselle from Armentieres -- The Maple Leaf Squadron -- My brother Sylveste -- My only woodbine -- My sweet little Air Force blue suit -- Night-gown of blue -- North Atlantic Squadron -- North Atlantic Squadron-standard version -- No. 5 Squadron song -- O'er the hills of Sicily -- Old Destroyer Squadron -- Old King Cole -- Old King Cole-423 Squadron -- The old monk -- On Ilkla Moor -- Onwards to the Po -- Ops in a Wimpey -- O'Reilly's daughter -- Pack up your troubles -- A personal friend of mine -- Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition -- Prince Henry song -- The quarter master's stores -- Retreat to Leeds -- The ric-a-dam-doo -- Ringy dang doo -- Roll along, Wavy Navy -- Roll me over -- Roll your leg over -- The Saguenay song -- Salome -- Screw-guns -- She wore a yellow ribbon -- Sing us another one -- 692 song -- Skidding down the runway -- South of Colombo -- South of the Sangro -- Stand to your glasses, steady -- Subaltern's song -- Sweet violets -- Tavern in the town -- Three German officers crossed the Rhine -- Times is hard -- Tipperary -- To the stars -- 23rd Flotilla -- The Valley of the Ruhr -- The wearin' of the green -- West Atlantic Squadron -- When I am LOB -- When this bloody war is over -- The woad song.

ISBN

• 0888301715
• 9780888301710
• 0888301723
• 9780888301727

LCCN

cn 79091144

OCLC

1060731686

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library