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The Bees. Weddling... Piano Solo: Spring Song
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SONGS AND THE SOLDIER.
ORPHEUS IN KHAKI.
[BY TREVOR ALLEN. Į Song is the amulet of the soldier; the never failing charm he carries with him to beguile, the first day's fatigue or the last moment's" plunge into a belching tornado of destruction. The meloly may be facile, the words fatuous they are merely the instrument, and do not. matter. What matters is the vibrant voice lifted in song. for through it is manifest the soul of the man, wird its victory over circumstances and environ. meat
xiety for the marrow; of Light Out," the sinking into grateful repose, and a throng of stars visible through. the open tent Epp- ...
THE SENTIMENTAL AND· THE SUBLIME.
Certain songs there are, too, which we prefer to sing by proxy, as it were; through the intermediary of an intuitive temperament and polished technique Among them are the Caravan song, beyond our own accomplishmenta. "Until," "When You Come Home
Tommy, Lad," "Somewhere a Voice is Calling," the Bedouin Love Song" and they are the most poigrant of all. Though our lips are silent, we sing them with that inward voice of sympathy and When, perforce, we must, bide our devout. Surrounded by the complacen remembrance which is, perhaps, more scintillating, buttons under greasy cies of civilian life, our enjoyment of overalls and take our turn as cap the sentimental song might sometimes orderly or cooks mate broadly speak have been blent with a little lofty ing regimental sint-we don't complain.
We don't extend our arms in studied cynicism. In the Army, which to the anguish, lamenting the lexurious job wo soldier of to-dig is in some respects an sacrificed to join up and the elegant exiledom, we cannot afford this high- home we've been accustomed to. All brow aloofnest In each of these songs there is a phrase, a cadence in the that is taken for granted in the new melody, that evoke an echo in the arion until it is claimed as a strictly deepest emotions. Through them we personal prerogative; then it is resented. may indulge a reverie of these personal So we sing "Good-bye Virginia feelings which the soldier's dignity at -mimirably the rhythm of a scrubbing other times rapresses. They exhale brush, on
laurine floor; in fact, it is
almost a deadoriser. While as for into oblivion with the incense of his
cigarette
it
soaring greasy bacon pans with mud Last of all, there is the song we sing and cold water, all the pathos of it seems when we go over the top, the song we concentrated in that plaintive "Long, fing into the hungry jaws of missile- long trail that's leading.
And what means all this, pray, lat the con-
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how we plunge into the matter, ita laughing immanity from the deepest hell of conflict to the skirt of pipes and the challenge of "John Peel" That, beyond aught else, comes from the | soul of us. It proclaims the soul's defiance of diabolically wrought matter--the farbed wire, the strapper curtain, the dense bail of machine-guns, the débris-
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SONO3 ON THE MARCH Then the route marches. Not only do ve ring to proclaim the soul's triumph over physical fatigue, over the caprices of an officer with a strewn craters, the poised lurking SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo· Co. suburban tendency to follow the tram- bayonet; of that most precious of matter, lines; over the wistful appeal of The the body itself. It is eloquent of the Rising Sun that dawns for us in vain ascendancy of the soul over all this and The Crown and Anchor, where not devastation and annihilation. The even the perspiring sergeant-major may swan-song we sing you on our way indulge a moment's harlounge; over West is our unlettered contribution to blisters, and drawing feet and that a problem which has baffled the blighter in front who persists in think philosophers ofall time-the immortality ing he is the only man in step. Our of the human soul, singing is positive as well as negative.
We sing the intoxicating rhythm of fect, and the body's proud strength and
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warm surging, the streaming sunlight, Mr. A. McCurdy, MP., writing to the hazy, brooding countryside. We London contemporary says have sing the gaiety of marching through just ascertained the reaalta of a house- pleasant villages so intimately responsive to-home cans of the Borough of TRON STEEL, METAL and HARD to our Here we are again the Northampton undertaken for the purpose WARE MERCHANTS Wholesale whimsical conceit of maching through of recording the number, names and and Betsil Ironmongers. Pig Iron and the town, with its attentive crowd and regiment of all Northampton men who deferential traffic --
All these things we sing chorus have enlisted for immediate service or following chorus until our répertoire is under the group system since the com- exhausted, and we have to concede the mercement of the war. The list, which beanty of those tunes our fathers cannot as yet bs said to be complete. marched to: "John Peel,There is stains already 12,378 unines, or rather a Tavern in the Town 08, to more than 1815 per cent of the total
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Boys of the Old Brigade," and so on The canvass was completed before the Io pre-khaki days it may have been Military Service Ast came into force, and our idiosynery to mumble odd does not include any men brought in excerpta from Wagner, Grieg Schubert, under that Act. Every man of the 12,808 Rachmaninoff. Now anything from is a volunteer.
Gilbert the Fibort to My Home in Tennessee " will do, because into them passes all the light, eclour, and atmosphere of theas pagan days In the far by-and-by these careless choruses. will echo in the mind, bringing back to us the glory of those days intensified by remoteness and recollection.
Manifold as those of the, ingas and the troubadours of old are the songs within songs that we sing There is the song that leaps like a cataract from a hundred, three hundred vinces in unison the song of the YMCA on conceit night. Though it seem to you, listening by, merely an ordinary string of choruses, it is really one great song It is the song of respite from healthrul labour?
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