We'll Meet Again (British Patriotic Song) | Ads not in my power | Reuploaded
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- Опубликовано: 27 дек 2024
- "(...) No song captured the heartbreak and optimism of Britain at war better than We'll Meet Again.
Recorded in 1939 by Vera Lynn, who has died at the age of 103, its lyrics provided comfort to all those who were apart from their loved ones.
"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when / But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day."
The song has since been quoted by the Queen and covered by Johnny Cash. It even entered the UK chart earlier this year, offering a message of hope during the coronavirus lockdown.
"Its lyric seemed to me to be a perfect example of what you might call the 'greetings card song,'" Dame Vera wrote in her 1975 autobiography Vocal Refrain.
"A very basic human message of the sort that people want to say to each other but find embarrassing actually to put into words."
The singer was only 22 when she first recorded the song. It was in the first year of the conflict - during the so-called "phoney war", when troops were conscripted but very little fighting took place - that Lynn found the song while shopping around music publishing companies in London's Denmark Street for new material. (...)" (BBC, 2021)
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I have a discord server from which its link is pinned in the comment section this one is not it, but if you are interested in history you should definitely check the "The Front" server:
/ discord
The Front is a youtube channel dedicated to preserve the lesser-known stories of war, focusing, for the time being, on the deadliest war in human history, World War II.
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