Lili Marlene

[Eric Lerner]

Originally in 1915 a poem in German by Hans Leip, with music added in 1937 by Norbert Schultze.  In the 1940s, it was a hit in both German and English for Marlene Dietrich.  This version of the English lyrics evolved from a new translation of the original German by my mother, Esther Torczyner Lerner.  Accompanied on my 19th Century George Jones G/D Anglo Concertina.

 

 

[Roger Hare]

Nice! Thank you.

 

Spawned the song 'D-Day Dodgers' after the Normandy landings in WWII. The full story is here, along with the words for the song.

 

I once saw Hamish Henderson get into a 'heated discussion' in a folk club in Edinburgh about whether he did (or didn't) write the words. Great fun! He worked in the School of Scottish Studies on the other side of George Square from where I worked.

 

Simple ABC, PDF and MIDI attached.

ddaydodgers.abc ddaydodgers.pdf ddaydodgers.mid

Edited May 24 by Roger Hare