where to find the words to the songs of 1939/1945 war songs?

Question

This is for older people in residential care

Answer 1

Just go into google and search for World war 2 songs ,There are pages of them ,
Click the link below ,Then choose the song and there you will find the Lyric.

Answer 2

Hi - I did a quick search on Google and came up with these sites:

Some good ones here, including "White Cliffs of Dover" and "Lili Marlene":
http://www.jilldaniels.com/Vera_Lynn_Tribute.htm

This site has a list of American folk songs, and there might be some from that era listed (for instance, "You're In the Army Now" is listed):
http://ingeb.org/catus.html

Scroll down to almost the very bottom of this page and look for the caption "World War II". Some of the links were no good, but the links to "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" were both good:
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/music-2.html

And, finally, here is a wonderful site with thousands of song lyrics. You can search by title or artist. I did a quick search for Frank Sinatra and came up with a couple of hundred different songs.
http://www.lyricsfind.com/

I hope some of these can help! Good luck to you.

Answer 3

Try any bookstore, particularly second hand shops and house clearance stores. They regularly have piles of old music that you can go through and there may be some song collections that have been taken from house clearances.
Or go into a music shop that sells sheet music and ask them if they have any, or know of any that you can order (they have lists on computer of most published music that is still in print),

Answer 4

I'm young but Bless 'em all is in The Great British Songbook:-

They say there's a troopship leaving Bombay,
Bound for Old Blightly's shore,
Heavily laden with time-expired men,
Bound for the lands they adore.
There's many an airman just finishing his time,
There's many a twirp signing on.
You'll get no promotion this side of the ocean,
So cheer up. my lads, bless 'em all.

Bless 'em all! Bless'em all!
The long and the short and the tall;
Bless all the sergeants and W.O.1.s,
Bless all the corp'rals and their blinkin' sons,
'Cos we're saying goodbye to them all
As back to their billets they crawl.
You'll get no promotion this side of the ocean,
So cheer up, my lads bless 'em all!
(last time) Nobody knows what a twirp you've been,
So cheer up, my lads, bless 'em all;!

They say if you work hard you'll get better pay,
We've heard it all before,
Clean up your buttons and polish your boots,
Scub out the barrack-room floor.
There's many a rookie has been taken in,
Hook line and sinker an' all.
You'll get no promotion this side of the ocean,
So cheer up, my lads, bless 'em all!

Bless 'em all! etc

written / composed by Jimmy Hughes and Frank Lake, 1940

Answer 5

See the link below, this will start you off, i will post more when found

http://www.ww1photos.com/WW1MusicIndex.html