Antiwar Songs (AWS) - John P. Long & Maurice Scott

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Oh! It's A Lovely War!

John P. Long & Maurice Scott

Risalente alla II guerra mondiale, una canzone terribilmente ironica in puro stile yankee (nel senso migliore del termine). Testo ripreso dal canzoniere "Shay, Pious Friends and Drunken Companions", e riprodotto dal Mudcat Café.

The song "Oh! It's a Lovely War" was written by J. P. Long and Maurice Scott in 1917 and was part of the repertoire of music hall star and male impersonator Ella Shields.

Intorno a questa ed altre canzoni risalenti alla Grande Guerra è costruita l'opera musicale "Oh, What a Lovely War!" realizzata nel 1963 da Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop, sulla base di "The Donkeys" di Alan Clark e di "The Good Soldier Švejk" di Jaroslav Hašek.
(Alessandro)

Up to your waist in water,
(Continues)

Contributed by Riccardo Venturi 2005/11/29 - 21:12

Song Itineraries: World War I (1914-1918)

Charles Chilton, a longtime radio writer and producer for the BBC who developed the concept for a satirical antiwar musical of the 1960s, “Oh, What a Lovely War!,” died Jan. 2 in England. He was 95. British newspapers reported his death, but the cause and circumstances were not immediately available.

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