
Episode 35 – Professor James Harcombe
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Bully Beef - The Old Trap Song
Social anthropologist willard rugman set about collecting and recording the popular songs sung in the trenches by soldiers during the conflict. Most of the songs were about girls back home, such as mildred, you're my kaiser, daisy, daisy wears belgium gone and dirty edna's back passage. Of course, those songs may have been about cows back home. We sadly have no way of knowing. However, one short recording made by willard Rugman cap a great war veteran, then sadly homeless, living on the streets of london, singing the chorus of the old trench song - bully beef. O ooa o oocoo oooo ooooo m an
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