Soldatenlieder download pdf#
Should you need a print-out or editable version of the song (without banners or adverts) PDF and RTF files are available from the link at the bottom of each song page. To view the songs just click on the title required. Top hit song lyrics taken from the American music charts of 1930 to 1950 For top songs of the 1940's books and sheet music to buy check the 1940s Songs at Sheet Music Plus.īelow is a list of all the titles available in this section. This collection obviously has a bit of an English bias, if you are more interested in American hit songs of the war years see this page: I expect many of you out there of a certain age will have similar memories and I hope seeing these songs again will bring you the same nostalgia it brought to me when compiling them. The songs listed here include many of those I can remember being sung and from old records being played at the time. It seemed that going through these hardships together engendered a great community spirit which lingered long after the war had ended and which these songs helped to revive.
These gatherings often included a degree of drinking and singing of songs that had been popular though the war. But still I was fascinated by their stories of sleeping in underground stations, near misses, incendiary bombs, air raid warden duty, shrapnel coming through roofs, "spivs" who could apparently get anything, for a price, despite the rationing, hiding under the stairs or in the Anderson shelter when the air sirens went and many other things. My Family lived in north London (Finchley) during the war so didn't get it as bad as some parts. I REMEMBER from when I was young, at family get-together's, my parents stories about what happened during the war.
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