“V FOR VICTORY”

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21525, 13 September 1941, Page 11

“V FOR VICTORY”

SONG BY NOEL COWARD A. P. HERBERT’S POEM Noel Coward is going to write a “Victory V” song if he can produce words and music “worthy of so magnificent a theme.” He stepped work on his new play to strum the dot dot dot dash, first with his knuckles on a table, then in chords on the piano. “It’s an odd metre, fascinating—the whole idea is fascinating and incredible," he said. “A whole commonwealth of people of every type and class, tapping out their defiance to tyranny and their conviction of victory.” Here is an extract from A. P. Herbert’s poem hailing “V for Victory”: Three Dots and a dash Three Shorts and a long— The sign of the V, TJie hope of the free— I’he victory flash, The liberty song, “Up with your thumbs! Victory comes. Never say die— Victory’s nigh.” Whenever the Hun Thinks he has won, There shall he see The terrible “ V.”