16 July 2011, 07:18 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Posts: 26
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Wonderful Link
Thank you, Barrett, for this link.
At my mother's 90th birthday party (in the nursing home where she then lived), the residents were all singing Great War songs, and the 20-something staff were astonished that everyone seemed to know the lyrics. The professional singer leading all the songs explained that this was the generation born during or just after World War I, who had grown up listening to these songs being sung around the family piano on holiday evenings. "There's a Long, Long Trail" and "Tipperary" were the favorites.
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