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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 9

They are singing patriotic songs all over America, just as wo did during the first eighteen months of the war. The Amoricans dp not aim at anything grandiose in .their vocal expressions of loyalty. Songs that had a vogue with us during tho South African' campaign —"The Soldiers of the Queen," "The Absent-Minded Beggar" (with its laboured air), and "When , tho Empire Calls" have given place to tho lively lilt that catches every ear, and which everyone , can sing, whether it bo-round the piano or on. tho march behind tho lines of death. England hit it in "Tipperary," a song that has nothing to do \vi-bli the war or soldiering, and yeo which gripped an entire nation, and spread to others. There was magic in its simple melody—magic which gave it a great life, if a brief one. The Amoricans, who "popularised "There's a Hot Time in tho Old Town To-night" during their war with Spain, are now marching along tho snowy roads near their camps to the tune of "Where Do We Go From Here?" only the last .verso of which touches on the war. No song probably has had a bigger run than George Cohan's flag-wag "Over There," whilst another, lilt that is having a big vogue in the States is ''Good-lye, Broadway I Hullo, France!" which really hits the situation. 1 The December New York "Theatre" says of "Ovei There" :—"Over There" is perhaps the most successful of the popular songs that have thus far grown out of the war. There hangs, about it tho silver halo of a reputed quarter of a million dollars earned.for its author. The "joke" war song must, of course, have a place, just as Bairnsfather'p sketches have. One of these is the lilt "I Don't Want to Get Well," which relaics of a soldier so smitten with his nurse's charms that ha "don't want to get well." A verso of this song was sung the other evening by Mr. Dunigan at His Majesty's Theatre, with a curious result on one man in khaki. He protested to the management that the song was an insult to soldiers, and should not be sung—a. clear case of lack of humour. Other' hoys in khaki, returned and otherwise, who were present heartily enjoyed the merry song about the lovo-sick soldier in hospital.

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