As long as you love me lyrics chords7/4/2023 This collection obviously has a bit of an English bias, if you are more interested in American hit songs of the war years see this page: ![]() I expect many of you out there of a certain age will have similar memories and I hope seeing these songs again will bring you the same nostalgia it brought to me when compiling them. The songs listed here include many of those I can remember being sung and from old records being played at the time. It seemed that going through these hardships together engendered a great community spirit which lingered long after the war had ended and which these songs helped to revive. These gatherings often included a degree of drinking and singing of songs that had been popular though the war. But still I was fascinated by their stories of sleeping in underground stations, near misses, incendiary bombs, air raid warden duty, shrapnel coming through roofs, "spivs" who could apparently get anything, for a price, despite the rationing, hiding under the stairs or in the Anderson shelter when the air sirens went and many other things. ![]() My Family lived in north London (Finchley) during the war so didn't get it as bad as some parts. I REMEMBER from when I was young, at family get-together's, my parents stories about what happened during the war.
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