SOLDIERS’ SONGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 256, 30 October 1939, Page 9

SOLDIERS’ SONGS

THE OLD WEAR WELL "WASHING ON SIEGFRIED LINE' "Hanging Out tile Washing on Ihi Siegfried Line" is promised as a successor to "Tipperary" and other Great War songs, states the London correspondent of the Auckland Herald. II has been popular with the British troops on the way to the Westerr Front, and also at concerts for Ihi soldiers. It has caused amusement wherever it has been sung. The chorus is: We’re going to hang our washing on the Siegfried Lino, Have you any dirty washing, mother dear ? Because the washing day is here Whether the weather is wet or fine We'll just rub along, no fear. Yes, we'll bang out the washing or the Siegfried Line, if lhe Siegfried Line’s still there. So far, however, the war has noi called forth any songs that have < comparable place to "Tipperary." To gether with other old favourites, in eluding "Pack Up Your Troubles," it is- being sung byithc sons of the mer who marched to the tune in 1914-18 In France “Boomps-a-Daisy" is sail to be very popular with the poilu.