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ANZAC Day music, Bruce Dawe, Cold Chisel, Do Re Mi, Eric Bogle, George Trevare and Orchestra, James Blundell, John McCrea, John Wlliamson, Midnight Oil, Peter Barnes, Redgum, Ronnie Burns
Playlist by Algernon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQbcAQ9SqmM
Smiley – Ronnie Burns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
I was only nineteen – Redgum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82UpqFCwe_w
Postcard from Saigon – James Blundell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvqh3ghEqtk
Khe Sanh – Cold Chisel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V94eo1F3T8
Warnings moving clockwise – Do Re Mi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFv2NEE-_c
US forces – Midnight Oil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI
The Band played Waltzing Matilda – Eric Bogle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whiN4s60wPc
Homecoming – Bruce Dawe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQyhVXUwM0
In Flanders Fields – John McCrae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL8u00l0CnE
Can you hear Australia’s Heros Marching – Peter Barnes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cohkaLM3AjQ
Hey True Blue – John Williamson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-XXTs1w5tc
Blossom and Blood – Midnight Oil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K0rK6L6a1w
Curl the Mo, Uncle Joe – George Trevare & Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tv5gBa9DQs
Battle of the Somme
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
No, Mrs M doesn’t agree, but she just turned 55 ( I like the allure of an older woman).
Nice to hear that you’re raising hell at The Bum. It’s a pain trying to get a post up. It’s often closed for new posts before it’s open!
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Clicked reply, and ended up at the top.
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Well this morning they put up blogs for comment and you couldn’t post to them. Fridays are a waste as they head off early for beer o’clock.
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You have done a good job, alge, once again. I hope you don’t mind me saying that Marlene Dietrich’s Where Have All The Flowers Gone would fit in here very well, even if sung in German 🙂
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This time around I focused on Australian tunes or written poems. I think on a previous war tune list I did include a Marlene Dietrich, though that list include tunes from around the world. Its difficult to get a balance the pros or cons on war. The Hey True Blue was included more for its patriotic verve than actually being a son about war.
I hope I got the balance right.
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Good choice Algy. Many thanks. I was only nineteen my favourite.
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Thank you Gez, It’s one I like. The Vietnam war was what I grew up with and recall the bad treatment the Vietnam veterans managed on their return, particularly from the likes of the RSL. I think it’s respectful tune, one that strikes a cord with the Vietnam vets.
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You and I must be about the same age. Algy. I still remember the ads on telly, telling 18 to whatever year olds with birthdays before, or after, 1st July, to report to the draft office. I was terrified!
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I think I worked out from earlier posts that I’m about a year older than you I’ll be 55 this year. I finished school in 1976 when I was 18. I remember my mother saying to others when I was about 13 that that could be our sons in a few years. I think I worked out what that meant. Therese must have been close.
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I’ll be 53, but I’m a very mature 53!!
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LOL, does Mrs M agree….?
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Alge, pleased to see you attacking the immature Liberals yesterday on the Drum, very mature… 🙂
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Some of them are like little parrots Helvi. Andie in particular, can’t manage an argument so he just starts with the abuse, realist was another that short shrift today.
Big M did you finish school in 1977?
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78
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Same as Mrs Algernon though she went to school in WA, Would have been 77 if she was schooled here. Shes already 53.
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