DAD'S ARMY: full theme song, unheard lyrics

This is the full theme-song ("Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?") for classic BBC comedy "Dad's Army" - there's an extra four lines about 2/3 of the way through that were never used in broadcast. Music and video taken from a hidden easter-egg on a DVD.

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Music

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• dads
• army
• mainwaring
• comedy
• theme
• tune
• kidding
• hitler

[mrmagicroundcircle]

these chaps should be unleashed on london and birmingham rioters they wouldnt like it up em

[UnusedPineapple]

Anyone else here because of the Yogscast video?

[hminkema]

I was 8 to 12 years old when this series played on Dutch television. Loved it! Still love it, actually, and I have just ordered the DVD collection from British Amazon.

I always knew this song without knowing the exact words, as is often the case with foreign-language songs that we learn as kids. But I'm pretty sure that the lines "Mr. Brown goes off to town ... with his gun" are in the movie, and only the modulation "So watch out ... the bus" were left out.

I love this video clip, by the way!

[sturatcliffe]

@hitthatperfectbeat --- I take your point, yes. Your TA information is out of date though: 1980's: TA could not serve overseas in peacetime; 1990's: TA could request to be deployed overseas, if their skills were needed; 2000's: TA's are expected to and WILL serve tours in combat zones, no opt-out. Times change.

[hitthatperfectbeat]

@sturatcliffe By "not real soldiers" i merely meant that they were not regulars, in the same way as, while respecting what they do and acknowledging their importance, we would not refer to members of the TA as soldiers. "Swell the ranks" i accept is a bit misleading, i did not mean that they would literally be placed into existing units that were depleted, but that they would support regular troops and were not Britain's only territorial defence.

[sturatcliffe]

@hitthatperfectbeat --- Partly correct. The age limits were 17-65, and in reality many men in their 50's and 60's were turned down, so 'old men and boys' is questionable. Members in their 70's and 80's are folklore. Not real soldiers? Most members born before 1899 (aged 41 or over at the HG's foundation) had military experience, 1914-18 especially. They were not supposed to 'swell the ranks', it was a separate force under territorial command, not divisional unit command.

[lastswordfighter]

@TallboyDave They did that actually.

[TallboyDave]

@lastswordfighter If I remember, they got around it by painting a red band around the stocks of the rifles chambered for .30-06, as an identifying mark.

[BabyBuffaloSoldier]

@UnusedPineapple wat for yogscast video??? which one??

[woodoor1]

The 4 people who disliked this video must have got it up 'em and not liked it!

[TheLucyloo95]

I love dads army!!

[masterchiefboy11]

this full length song is used in the movie