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Subject: Re: old song lyrics identified

Author:
Rembrandt

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Date Posted: 21:16:08 01/08/06 Sun
In reply to: Eni Mema 's message, "Re: old song lyrics identified" on 20:57:45 01/15/04 Thu

>I am doing a History assingment about the 1930's and I
>really need the lyrics of the song written in the
>1930's and it goes like this "How you are you going to
>get the boys back on the farm once they have seen
>Paree" this was written for the soldiers at war
> It will be very helpful if you can help me find the
>Lyrics for this song
>
> Thank You
The name of the song is "How Are You Gonna Keep Them Down On the Farm After They've seen Paree?", and is not from the 30's, but rather during World War I.It was very popular in its time, and recorded by Nora Bayes on a 78 rpm record. I suppose it was written in 1917. Here are the lyrics:

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Re: old song lyrics identified	mkrauss	08:23:04 03/09/06 Thu