Though your lingo I don't know

[sovay]

The chorus to "Gertie from Bizerte"—otherwise known as the only piece of the song clean enough to be sung onscreen by the U.S. Army Rangers in The Canterville Ghost (1944), where I learned it—has been stuck in my head since I got up at ten this morning. The one upside: I found a Life article from 1943 field-collecting American soldiers' songs, which I didn't realize anyone was doing at the time. The downside: even the pair of floppy drives playing the Imperial March can't drive it out. Unfortunately, the text of Patrick Hamilton's Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse (1953) seems to contain no catchy songs whatsoever.

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[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

That can be very annoying. Maybe Andy Irvine's take on "The Close Shave" might help? I get the chorus stuck in my head every now and again.



Sorry it's not a better audio quality--an I had it on an actual CD, I'd send you the track, but I haven't.

I really should've looked more closely at Youtube first...

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't. There's a pair of videos with better sound quality.


Good sound, barring one bit where the cord is slipping out of the endpin jack on Andy's zouk.

Bit of crowd noise, but still better sound. Bit more background on the origins of the song in the intro.