D-Day Dodgers - Hamish Imlach

D-Day Dodgers - Hamish Imlach

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Music

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• hamish
• imlach
• folk
• glasgow

[sgeir]

Whether she said it or not, Lady Astor was detested by the soldiers, most of whom were staunchly working class and had been radicalised by their war experiences.

I first heard it sung, either by Hamish or possibly by the late Roy Guest, at a concert in Glasgow on the day or day after she died. There was no sentimentality about her death in Glasgow. My late father, who served in Italy, kept a.cyclostyled copy of the words.from the War.

[nacho1560]

Lady Astor once castigated Churchill for being drunk. His reply: "In the morning, madam, I will be sober. You will still be ugly."

[gaconnochie]

"Whether she said it or not, Lady Astor was detested by the soldiers" I imagine as being originally a staunch supporter of appeasement she should have been a tad less vocal once the war erupted and of course she was susepcted of being a nazi sympathiser herself. She was an American who'd moved to Britain yet none of the verses seem to pick up on that. It would have been easy for the British Tommies to have went down the line of you're not even one of us! Says a lot for them that they didn't

[MrJohn148]

As usual, a politician sticks their nose into something they think they all about and it turns into a snafu, somethings never change. I think all people who served in this campaign were heros.

[dw441]

you all miised the point this is called irony, its joke song writen by the guys in italy because th papers were full of d day, and yes 8th army had everyone in it

[relmmih6]

bit disrespectfull,soldiers did die in italy,also a soldier only goes where he is ordered to.

[sgeir]

Whether she said it or not, Lady Astor was detested by the soldiers, most of whom were staunchly working class and had been radicalised by their war experiences.

I first heard it sung, either by Hamish or possibly by the late Roy Guest, at a concert in Glasgow on the day or day after she died. There was no sentimentality about her death in Glasgow. My late father, who served in Italy, kept a.cyclostyled copy of the words.from the War. 

[jeffreycoley]

@nacho1560 he was a d day dodger. like so many of our fathers. god bless america.

[jeffreycoley]

We will remember. we will always remember the men who gave thier lives for a difference. and were criticized for it. For they were the D day dodgers. way out there in italy.

[robsargent4]

@mdc2296 Fair enough.