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Comment by James O Lunsford on May 6, 2015 at 5:32pm

Good job Sammy putting this together Fine performance My Dad Was in this War told Me of the tough Times they went through A Generation of Hero's For Sure

Comment by Sammy Lloyd on May 6, 2015 at 8:19am

Nancy you are so kind, I really enjoy doing them. It also gives me some practice fooling around with a few chords. Looks like it's tea time. :)

Comment by Nancy kat on May 6, 2015 at 5:54am

Oh Sammy your so good at these songs!!! Just so cleaver the way u put these to music! Meeowwww^.^

Comment by Sammy Lloyd on May 5, 2015 at 11:40pm

cheers Merle, appreciate your comments

Comment by c# merle on May 5, 2015 at 10:55pm

this is excellent sammy. real enjoyed it mate

Comment by Sammy Lloyd on May 5, 2015 at 8:40pm

Thanks Wolf
Thanks Unc, most old folk tell me you ate better if you lived in the country, poaching was rife for Rabbit and anything else that was edible. In the cities it was a case of 'who you knew'. Amazingly the stories are always told with a smile.

Comment by Clock The Wolf on May 5, 2015 at 12:53pm

W0W!!!

Comment by Uncle John on May 5, 2015 at 12:21pm

Super nice, Sammy.  There was rationing here and shortages during WW II, but nothing like what you folks went through.   Oh!  Another Mick Westwood poem.  I was thinking it was a traditional song.  Good job!

I was born after that war, but one grand mother still made some war time dishes for Sunday dinners.   "War Cake' that somehow used less sugar, some kind of 'mock chicken legs' on a stick and 'mock pork chops' on a stick and 'mock' apple pie made from soda crackers.  All of it was great. 

Comment by Sammy Lloyd on May 5, 2015 at 10:36am

Thanks Jim. We had dinner with my mother in law a couple of days ago who was evacuated twice as a child from the city of Hull. She just turned 18 on VE Day. She too has an amazingly modest way of recalling what they went through, sharp as a pin.

Comment by Jim Morris on May 5, 2015 at 10:22am

Maybe not so light hearted there Sammy. It really reminds us Baby Boomers of what it was like not too long ago. My father is 95 and remembers all this very well - even better than what he had for breakfast this morning. I truly enjoy your musical treatments of Mr. Westwood's poems.