Your King and Country Want You
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title:
Your King and Country Want You
text:
Several different recruiting songs with the name "Your King and Country Want/Need You" were popularised in Britain at the beginning of the First World War. Your King and Country Want You with words and music by Paul Rubens was published in London at the start of the war in 1914 by Chappell Music. It was written as a "Woman's Recruiting Song" to be sung with the intention of persuading men to volunteer to fight in the War. Profits from its sale were given to "Queen Mary's Work for Women Fund"; th
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description:
British WWI patriotic song
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_King_and_Country_Want_You
date created:
2011-01-10T02:14:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T22:07:03Z
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