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What song did Fred White of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps find cynicall?

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Nearer My God to Thee

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What German Unteroffizier described a service in which they sung Oh, Wounded Head?

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Johannes Haas

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What tune was Cathedral de Reims sung to?

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C’est si joli la femme

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Why was the Rheims Cathedral targeted by the Germans in 1914?

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Because of its ability to serve as an observational post

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What newspaper called the destruction of the Rheims Cathedral the Kaiser’s Crowning Infamy?

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The Daily News in London

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What had Kings done at the Rheims Cathedral for generations?

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Been consecrated at its alter with oil brought down from heaven by a dove

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What American soldier had been an avid collector of songs from the Appalachian Region

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John Jacob Niles

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What were the only troops that John Jacob Niles found didn’t just repeat the latest hits but made up their own songs?

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African-American troops

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What African American song collected by John Jacob Niles had a mournful refrain?

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Grave-Diggers

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Who wrote The Bravest Heart of All?

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Arthur J. Lamb and Henry Clique

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Who was The Bravest Heart of All a tribute to?

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Edith Cavell

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Who was Edith Cavell

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An English nurse and Red Cross hospital matron who helped Allied prisoners escape to Belgium and was executed by firing squad

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Who wrote After The War is Over Will there be any Home Sweet Home?

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E.J. Pour man, Joseph Woodruff and Henry Andrieu

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What did Harry Hamilton and Ed Thomas write?

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The Boys Who Won’t Come Home

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Who wrote They Sleep in Fields of Battle?

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Duncan J. Muir

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Who wrote Where Where Is the Boy Who Went Over the Sea?

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Marie Rich

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What is the most famous poem of the world?

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In Flanders Field

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Who wrote In Flanders Fields?

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Canadian physician John McCrae

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What poet wrote about laughter and caring?

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T.P. Cameron

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Who recalled that they thought about everything but their tired feet?

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Lieutenant Power

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Who explained one musical torment targeted at commanding officers?

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Rifleman Stanely Hopkins

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What was the most humorous song heard by French soldiers and citizens?

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Quand Madelon (When Madelon)

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Who composed Quand Madelon and who added its words?

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Camille Robert with words by Louis Basquet

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Who is Madelon in When Madelon?

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A flirtatious waitress who gets asked in marriage by a corporal, she refuses saying that she loves the whole regiment and she needs her hand to serve drinks

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What was When the Roll is Called up Yonder retooled as?

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When the Guns are Rolling Yonder

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What WW1 song is still sung by Children at Halloween

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The Hearse Song

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What was Sing Me to Sleep retooled as?

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Far, Far from Ypres

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What was the song Kind Thoughts Can Never die retooled as?

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Old Soldiers never die

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What song was quoted by General Douglas McArthur during the Korean War?

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Old Soldiers Never Die

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What musicologist pointed out that McArthur forgot the second stanza’s text in Old Soldiers Never Die?

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Glenn Watkins

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What was one humorous song written during the war?

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How Ya Gonna Keep Em Down on the Farm

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What was Irving Berlin’s humorous contribution to the war?

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They were all out of step but Jim

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The music played by makeshift trench orchestras included what composers?

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Christoph Willibard Gluck, Frederic Chopin, Jules Massanet, Charles Marie Widor, Camille Saint Saens

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Who was the Third Reich’s propaganda minister?

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Joseph Goebbels

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Most pacifist songs were from whose viewpoint?

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The parents

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What pacifist song had lyrics by Will Dillon and music by Albert Von Tilzer?

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Don’t Take My Darling BoyAway

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What was Irving Berlin’s contribution to Pacifism?

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Stay Down Here Where You Belong

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What is the subtitle for I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

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A Mother’s Plea For Peace, respectfully dedicated to every mother-everywhere

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What is the tempo for I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

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Marziale or march like

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Who wrote the music for I didn’t raise My Boy to Be A Soldier?

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Al Piantadosi

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Who wrote the lyrics for I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier?

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Alfred Bryan

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Who was the publisher for I didn’t raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

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Leo Frost

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How many copies of I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier were sold in the first two months?

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700,000 copies

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What school principal taught I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier to his kids?

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Alexander Fichandler

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What national guard Major was annoyed at students learning what he dubbed anti-military propaganda?

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Major Sydney Grant of the 18th Coast Artillery

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When did the Victor Talking Machine Company withdraw I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

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April 1917 after America entered the war

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What Irish melody does the first phrase of I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier have much in common with?

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The Moreen

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To what song did Thomas Moore set the lyrics for The Minstrel Boy?

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The Moreen

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What gives the mother’s plea extra poignancy in I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

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Chromaticism

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What were the three parodies to I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?

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I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Slacker, I’m going to Raise my Boy to Be a Soldier and a credit to the USA, I’m sure I wasn’t Raised to be a Soldier But I’ll Fight for the Dear Old Red White and Blue

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