The Gallipoli songbook : 21 iconic songs arranged for piano, voice and guitar / edited by Tony Knowles.

Contributor(s): Knowles, Tony [editor.]Material type: ScoreScorePublisher: London : Wise Publications, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 95 pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cmContent type: text | still image | notated music Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785580079Subject(s): Great Britain. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- Songs and music | World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Songs and music | War songs -- Australia | Guitar and piano music, Arranged -- ScoresDDC classification: 782.42
Contents:
Advance Australia Fair -- Along the road to Gundagai -- And the band played Waltzing Matilda -- For me and my gal -- The gift of years -- God save the King -- Hello! Hello! Who's your lady friend? -- Here we are, here we are, here we are again! -- I wonder who's kissing her now -- If you were the only girl (in the world) -- It's a long way to Tipperary -- Keep the home fires burning -- No man's land / The green fields of France -- Oh! It's a lovely war -- Over there -- Pack up your troubles (in your old kit bag) -- Roses of Picardy -- Take me back to dear old Blighty -- There's a long, long trail -- They didn't believe me -- Waltzing Matilda.
Summary: The songs of optimism, sorrow, consolation and humour collected here were the people's songs, most of them contemporary with the First World War, a few predating it and a few were written afterwards, and offer reflections on the human costs of the conflict that was supposed to end all wars. In the main, they are down to earth, sometimes satirical and always entertaining. Many played an important role in brightening, however fleeting, the darkest hours of this extraordinary conflict.
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Advance Australia Fair -- Along the road to Gundagai -- And the band played Waltzing Matilda -- For me and my gal -- The gift of years -- God save the King -- Hello! Hello! Who's your lady friend? -- Here we are, here we are, here we are again! -- I wonder who's kissing her now -- If you were the only girl (in the world) -- It's a long way to Tipperary -- Keep the home fires burning -- No man's land / The green fields of France -- Oh! It's a lovely war -- Over there -- Pack up your troubles (in your old kit bag) -- Roses of Picardy -- Take me back to dear old Blighty -- There's a long, long trail -- They didn't believe me -- Waltzing Matilda.

The songs of optimism, sorrow, consolation and humour collected here were the people's songs, most of them contemporary with the First World War, a few predating it and a few were written afterwards, and offer reflections on the human costs of the conflict that was supposed to end all wars. In the main, they are down to earth, sometimes satirical and always entertaining. Many played an important role in brightening, however fleeting, the darkest hours of this extraordinary conflict.

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