Can I pick your brains? - music related

Thanks for all the ideas - I am still thinking!

Oops wrong war
Ignore me. Sun gone to my head

The boogie woogie bugle Boys (& girls).

Does it need to be of the period ?

I'm thinking 'What a wonderful world'
Maybe take the line 'I see skies of blue'

I like JoyBloggs suggestion

The trick is to find something celebratory.

Did you come across this site, lucky? There's a long list of song names, scroll down, with lyrics - if you click on the song titles:

www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ww1-songs/

Oops! - did not mean to press "Post" yet!

Only Remember
The Poppies Blow
The Larks still bravely Fly

Or......

Everyone Sang
Beauty came like the setting sun
The singing will never be done

I have trawled through some 1st WW poems - thanks for that idea M0nica and have come up with several possibles. What do you think?

Blest by the suns of home
Under an English heaven
The sun will shine again
Earth is bursting into song
(Till) the valleys ring again

"It's a Song way to Tipperary" ?

'Returning, we heard the lark', from the war poet, Isaac Rosenberg's poem of the same name.

How about pack up your troubles....and sing

Or All The Bells Rang Out ( from a carol?)
Or When the Bells Rang Out

Maybe... 'Everybody's Happy Now'. The title of World War 1 song written in 1918 by Kendis/Brockman/Vincent (according to my old friend wikipedia).

it sounds alarming!

How about Celebrations and Jubilations (Cliff Richard song)

Sounds a bit arsonistic (is that a word?) to me!

Great idea gillybob - I love that song and the words are very appropriate.

I like that!!!

How about. Keep the home choirs burning

Too corny?

Sounds like a wonderful thing to be involved with. I hope you don't mind me saying that Only Remember which is a right and proper sentiment of course doesn't sound very celebratory. I don't suppose I have any bright suggestions. I think Bless 'em all' is the wrong period but its all the brain came up with this morning. I'll keep thinking on the golf course.

I like only remember. Difficult to think of anything celebratory which does not also sound a bit jingoistic ( is that a word?)

How does "Only Remember" sound - from the song that is sung in Warhorse, which we will be singing. It is not quite celebratory enough though?