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Music From The Glen
Sunday November 13th, 2016 with Colin Henein
Songs and Tunes of Remembrance

There is a rich collection of songs and tunes in the tradition offering perspectives, recollections or morale boosts associated with wartime. This morning's program explores these connections in honour of Remembrance Day 2016.
Flowers of the forest
The Scots Guards - The Tartan chillout album - Scotdisc
Farmhands and Masters
Kerr Fagan Harbron - Station house - Fellside
Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag / It's a long, long way to Tipperary
John Kirkpatrick - Tunes from the trenches - Fledg'ling
D-Day Dodgers
Jiig - Live at the National Library - November 12, 2005 - Unreleased (CKCU) Canadian
Jackie and Murphy
Martin Simpson - Vagrant stanzas - Topic
The band played Waltzing Matilda
The Pogues - Very best of the Pogues - WEA UK
AFL-CIO
The union boys - The little red box of protest songs [VA] - Proper
Mr. Hitler
Leadbelly - The little red box of protest songs [VA] - Proper
Peat bog soldiers
Swan Arcade - Round again - Fellside
Would you rather be a colonel? / Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers
John Kirkpatrick - Tunes from the trenches - Fledg'ling
Tenting on the old camp ground
Finest Kind - For honour and for gain - Fallen Angle Canadian
Cholera camp
Cockersdale - Been around for years - Fellside
Glorious deserters
Burgess, Ă…din & Wingard - Doggerland - Sjelvar
Johnny I hardly knew you
Tommy Makem - The Tommy Makem songbag - Shanachie
I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier
John Kirkpatrick - Tunes from the trenches - Fledg'ling
Recruiting sargeant
Great Big Sea - Play - WEA Canadian
If you want to see the General
Jon Boden - A folksong a day project - Unreleased (web)
The Riley boys
Finest Kind - For honour and for gain - Fallen Angle Canadian
If I had a hammer
Peter, Paul and Mary - The very best of Peter, Paul and Mary - Rhino
Interactive CKCU
Dale Morland
What a fabulous selection of songs today! Thanks Colin. The eagle on the shoulder vs the chicken on your knee really struck a chord.

12:22 PM, November 13th, 2016
Colin Henein (host)
Thanks Dale, so much good music on this theme, and it makes you think too.

12:27 PM, November 13th, 2016