George Formby - Imagine Me On The Maginot Line.

[overended101]

TUNEEEE if i do say so myself lol

[pilchardman101]

The maginot line was an amazing defensive structure of underground barracks and cannons in eastern france. Lame french didnt attack til it was too late tho

[cuteoldguy]

@1goodmanyourself2 ...I first heard this at 5 yr's old when the bomb's were comming down and the ack ack shell's were going up .

....Must be the flicking finger on the "Uke" that set's you girl's going .

[1goodmanyourself2]

This was sublime to masturbate to

[JohnnyLackland]

Love these old songs. If you can, listen to his rendition of Bless 'em All. George Formby was wonderful. Here's to you Brits.

- Johnny Lackland

[Hullcity2009]

Thrs a clip of this on the world at war when France was just about to come under attack by the nazis our brave troops thoe wer swept back to Dunkirk and thank fck got over th channel to fight another day

[universalsailor]

The Britrish had a secret weapon in WW2 that was worth all the Stukas and Waffen SS divisions and Tiger tanks, but I can't tell you what it was bcause it's still secret. (I can only divulge that part of it died in 1961.

[David291]

@universalsailor Why mention it at all then?

[kip108]

erg goed

[nick21sammy]

i believe this was during the Phoney war period

[tommysaurussmex]

wasn't this actually filmed on the maginot line... seems impossible to imagine that this was before Dunkirk.

[ma049]

The Germans’ ruthless and elite modern forces where nothing compared to Britain's large toothed ukulele wielding comics.

Poor buggers.

[deanofivetimes]

@ma049 well said that man

[mattacuk]

where was this filmed?

[nick21sammy]

@mattacuk in the months before the German invasion in France this visit was a sort of Morale booster. the troops have been stationed in France since Nov 1939 and were starting to get sick of it there

[AnneUgligurl]

I saw this song on World at War on the Military Channel.. researched for three days.. found the episode name (The Distant War). I listen to it everyday now.

[mattacuk]

@AnneUgligurl haha me too! :O) Im addicted to that channel !

[BOT101st]

@MartinLuciferKing

You sure mate? Course they would, infact one chap twated one of your wehrmacht when being marched away back in the war ;)

So before you comment back and start an argument war i dont give a shit, british army were tough back then and gave everyone lip, even amongst the ranks and regiments, and believe me a lot of the brits refered to them hard nut ss as nazi scum ;)

so blah blah blah blah blah troll

[kentmey]

@MartinLuciferKing .. If you were back in those days most probably you would smoke

[sionyn]

great stuff! No wonder the Nazis got beat ;o)

[handadalek]

This should really annoy me but I love it

I also saw it history class. The programme referred to below is "world war II in colour and hd" but I have also spotted it in "the world at war"

[lshaw17]

This is how we won the war. With trivial ditties.

[tommat00]

I take history at AS level, we watched a documentry about the outbreak of WWII and the 'Phony War' This song and vid appeared as a clip in it and I dont think I've ever lauhed so hard. The mans a genius :)

[thijsherm]

i was searching for this footage for month's, finally!

[connormcj25]

gawd what a cheer at the end! victory cheer

[broomybank]

So great to see this now, then it was a but of fun amidst the horror the soldiers faced

[moonshinerman]

thanks for posting this, I love George Formby

[DirtDiver4]

Really great to see this :D

[uke1964]

great love this ,

[jgreenhoff]

excellent footage...and a very funny song - and this coming from me...not exactly a fan of the british army's tradition in my country...nonetheless...hats off to this one! Mr Wu's an air raid warden now is also a classic.

[SlikHelvetius]

0:55

lol, they get it!