Don't know why I woke up and thought of this classic WW2 song

[malaise]

I do wonder when we'll be able to travel and visit close family and friends

[redwitch]

1. I have always loved this song.

Reminds me of my mom who was a young girl during WWII. She loved this song too.

[malaise]

2. My mom was a student in England in the middle of WW2

She also loved this song.

[samnsara]

3. love it! Its better than 'Is You Is or Is You Aint My Baby?'....which has been

..going thru my head since I head Ozzie Nelson sing it during one of his dream sequences....

[malaise]

5. ROFL

Bad malaise

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Obligatory:

[Mike 03]

4. Could it be because it is used over the nuclear explosions that end the world at

the climax of Dr. Strangelove? It's a great song, but if your first experience of it was seeing Dr. Strangelove, it's hard to think of it in any other context.

Didn't know it was a WW2 song. Thanks for the information.

[malaise]

9. Ha

It is one of the more famous WW2 songs

[whistler162]

6. 103 years old March 20th

still alive. A UK national treasure.

[malaise]

8. Wow!

I didn't know she was still alive.

Look at this from Friday

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/dame-vera-lynn-important-keep-going-keep-smiling-keep-hoping/
<snip>
Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces’ sweetheart, did not expect her wartime words to soothe a nation in crisis once again. But after the Queen echoed the lyrics of We’ll Meet Again in her address to the nation last month, the beloved 1939 tune has proved steadying in a time of uncertainty.

‘It was wonderful,’ the 103-year-old reflects. ‘I didn’t know that Her Majesty was going to finish up with the words “we will meet again”, but I think [they] speak to the hope we should all have during these troubling times.’

Indeed those lyrics – streams of which were up by over 200 per cent on Spotify after that royal mention, and which are heard anew in a recently released charity recording of the song, a duet by Dame Vera and Katherine Jenkins – have unexpectedly become ‘especially poignant’, Dame Vera tells me over email. ‘I am a firm believer in carrying on,’ she adds. ‘It is so important to keep going, keep smiling and keep hoping even when things are tough.’...

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I am a royal hater so I did not watch or read the queen's address

[hlthe2b]

10. I'm thinking alot about WWII now, watching the PBS Masterpiece Theater "World on Fire"

and the Ken Burns 14 hour documentary on The Roosevelts. Somehow knowing my late parents and grandparents lived through all of that is inspiring. But, oh, how it makes me desperate for us to see leadership. It is so frightening in comparison.

Music of WWII era is so spot-on. My father especially loved this music. Nice selection, malaise.

[malaise]

11. I was shocked a few years ago that one of my nephews sand along to this at a reunion

He said he first heard my second sis (his mom) play it, but that some of them knew it in Iraq

[usaf-vet]

20. If you would like a taste of what it was like during WW II in England watch Foyle's War.

Foyle's War. Can be found on Amazon Prime, YouTube, and DVD
https://tinyurl.com/y8gqzv9k

[hlthe2b]

21. Yes. I watched the entire series a few years back. It is excellent.

[The Blue Flower]

12. Fear and uncertainty are not new

This song is a reminder of that. Our precious forebears survived so much hardship that we can't even imagine.

[malaise]

13. Yep

I haven't experienced the fear part of it but I don't like the uncertainty.
Everything about my mother's approach to live was a reminder that she learned several lessons during that war.

[Dennis Donovan]

14. The History Lovers Club tweeted this on this very morning:

Uncanny timing given you posted your OP and hr and a half before they tweeted.

[malaise]

15. Mom's brother was in the army

not mom. He survived the war and then died a few years later in a motor bike crash in London.

Thanks for that.

[Dennis Donovan]

17. I laughed when I saw it because I saw your OP right before it

[malaise]

18. Great timing

[3Hotdogs]

16. I bought the cd of this at Churchill's War Room.

[empedocles]

19. When I read your, 'We'll Meet Again,' I immediately channeled 'Til Then'.

Happens to me all the time. Often songs that were popular long before my time.

As a kid I had several large, what were called 'fake books', containing truncated, 3 to a page, songs with lyrics, notes and chords, - which I played.

Heard some from my parents. I would like the lyrics, melody, or chords [especially blues/minor, augmented and diminished].

'til then' was covered by many artists.

'We'll meet again' and 'til then', are about . . . hope of course. [As are 1000's of other songs and stories. 'This too will pass' - eventually].

[malaise]

40. I heard a lot of music from my parents, grandparents and dad's siblings

but this one was mum's song. Lovely post.

[demmiblue]

22. Dame Vera Lynn with West End Stars perform We'll Meet Again 2020

[malaise]

30. Thanks for this

What a lovely cover

[bobnicewander]

41. Made me cry.

[3catwoman3]

42. Me, too. I know I'll be listening to...

...this again and again.

[cwydro]

23. Queen Elizabeth referenced the song in her recent address to the nation.

Maybe you heard it?

[CBHagman]

25. Yes, that was my thought as well!

And here's another WWII song from Vera Lynn, not necessarily with the right text for now, but the sentiments of returning to a normal life are on the mark.

Vaughn Monroe recorded it as well.

[malaise]

28. See #8

I did hear reports of it so subconsciously it may have seeped in

[warmfeet]

24. I love this song.

Oddly enough, I have been playing this song in my head for the past few days. I remember this song from the ending of the movie "Dr. Strangelove."

[spike jones]

26. That is not how I remember that scene.

[link:

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[FM123]

27. I catch myself doing the same thing...

There are old tunes I suddenly remember, ones that played on my parent's record player in my childhood home growing up. The waves of melancholy that come with the music usually just wash over me lightly, but then there are moments when those waves just knock me over.

[malaise]

29. Yep

This one isn't that old but I've also been singing it

[FM123]

31. Thank you, my heart needed that.

[malaise]

32. Check out that lovely cover including Vera at #22

[FM123]

34. Oh my....

Yes, some sunny day.

Thank you so much. Really.

[malaise]

36. #33 has me in tears

Enjoy

[FM123]

38. Moved me to tears too.

[malaise]

37. I'd love to see/hear Lady Gaga sing this song

[FM123]

39. Yes.

There is something so moving in the way in which she sings.

[Danascot]

33. This clip has Vera Lynn discussing what

the song meant and still means followed by a lovely tribute by Kiwi singer Hayley Westenra. It's from 2009. Dame Vera was the guest of honor.

[malaise]

35. Now you have me in tears