Michael McCann: Soldiers' Songs CD Track Listing

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Michael McCann Soldiers' Songs (1997)
YEAR: 1997
This folk cd contains 13 tracks and runs 48min 4sec.
Freedb: b70b420d

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: Music

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: music songs tracks folk Folk

1. Michael McCann - Christmas in the Trenches (John McCutcheon) (05:32)
   tells of an unofficial Christmas truce celebrated by the British and Germans at the start of W.W.I.(Appalsongs/ASCAP).
2. Michael McCann - We Danced to an Old Fashioned Tune (Johnny McEvoy) (03:36)
   is about a soldier from the Boer War who meets the girl he marries at a home-coming dance.(Callisto/IRE)/Kells/ ASCAP)
3. Michael McCann - The Wall (Tim Murphy) (04:31)
   describes the experience of visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC (Copyright 1985).
4. Michael McCann - The D-Day Dodgers (Norbert Schultz & Hans Leip) (02:40)
   penned by the lads of the British 8th Army, blasts Lady Astor's great gaffe of W.W.II. (E. B. Marks Music Co./GEMA)
5. Michael McCann - Michael (Johnny McEvoy) (04:04)
   is a tribute to the Irish revolutionary leader portrayed by Liam Neeson in the movie, Michael Collins.(Callisto(IRE)Kells/ASCAP)
6. Michael McCann - And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle) (06:16)
   is a powerful before and after look at the disastrous W.W.I. battle of Gallipoli through the eyes of an Australian. (Island Music/BMI)
7. Michael McCann - Lorena (J.P.Webster/H.D.Webster) (03:09)
   a song of unrequited love, drove soldiers a.w.o.l. during the American Civil War.(Clement Family Songs/BMI)
8. Michael McCann - The Rocks of Bawn (Traditional) (05:05)
   describes a blend of political and economic forces which caused landless Irish farmers to join the British army to fight in foreign lands.
9. Michael McCann - The Rose of No Man's Land (Caddigan/Brennan) (01:58)
   is a tribute to the nurses, including McCann's great aunt, who served on the battlefields of W.W.I.(Jerry Vogel Music /ASCAP)
10. Michael McCann - The Green Fields of France (Eric Bogle) (05:34)
    is another Bogle ballad about the great waste of the Great War.(Island Music/BMI)
11. Michael McCann - The Minstrel Boy (Traditional) (02:13)
    with its combined images of harp and sword, was for centuries used to rekindle the quest for freedom
12. Michael McCann - Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (Traditional) (01:21)
    an old love song wrapped in rebellion, was popular among the tens of thousands of Irish who fought in the American Civil War.
13. Michael McCann - The Soldier's Song (Peadar Kearney/Patrick Heeney) (01:57)
    is the Irish National Anthem.