War libraries and allied studies . er. Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson in his CarryOn, pictures the men in their dugouts sitting atnight by a fire, and singing almost every hymn andtune they know. They manage a kind of glee, withClementine, Three Blind Mice, Long, LongAgo, Silver Threads among the Gold, In theGloaming, Rock of Ages, The Star of Bethlehem,I Hear you Calling Me, interspersed with Every-body Works but Father, and Poor Old song, he adds, we sing under shell-fireas a kind of prayer. We sing it as we struggle knee-deep in the appalling mud. We sing it as we sitby a candle i
War libraries and allied studies . er. Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson in his CarryOn, pictures the men in their dugouts sitting atnight by a fire, and singing almost every hymn andtune they know. They manage a kind of glee, withClementine, Three Blind Mice, Long, LongAgo, Silver Threads among the Gold, In theGloaming, Rock of Ages, The Star of Bethlehem,I Hear you Calling Me, interspersed with Every-body Works but Father, and Poor Old song, he adds, we sing under shell-fireas a kind of prayer. We sing it as we struggle knee-deep in the appalling mud. We sing it as we sitby a candle in our deep captured German dugouts: Theres a long, long trail a-windingInto the land of my dreams,Where the nightingales are singingAnd a white moon beams:Theres a long, long night of waitingUntil my dreams all come true;Till the day when Ill be going downThat long, long trail with you. Almost the last thing you find anybody singing,however, Lieutenant Dawson goes on to say, isa patriotic song; just as the last thing you find any-. o o u £ -*; >> l-H HH E 03 a. OJ § — < SO & O c u « — &- o o O GO •— H —> X on O -a — 93 £ 14 lu o
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