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[rick@sq.com (Rick Innis)]

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From: rick@sq.sq.com (Rick Innis)
Subject: Re: A question...
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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 19:28:51 GMT
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>Based on your description my guess would be that you are talking about
>"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by the Pogues, one of the saddest songs
>ever written, and sung acapaella by Shane McGowan. 

Originally written by Eric Bogle, a Scots-born Australian folkie, who
also wrote a song called "No-Man's Land", commonly misnamed "The
Green Fields of France" (The Men They Couldn't Hang recorded it
under that name), as well as a lot of other guid tunes.  I think he's
written some of the most powerful and moving anti-war songs I've ever
heard. 

	--Rick.
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