We're All Waiting for a Shell

DESCRIPTION: "We're all waiting for a shell, Send us a whizz-bang, We're all waiting for a shell, Send us a five-nine" -- or anything that would result in a mild wound and a return to Blighty "Where the nurses change our nighties When the right shell comes along"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2001 (Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver)
KEYWORDS: soldier home injury | nurse
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver, p. 64, "We're All Waiting for a Shell" (1 text, tune referenced)
ADDITIONAL: John Mullen, _The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain during the First World War_, French edition 2012; English edition, Ashgate, 2015, p. 204, "(We're all waiting for a shell)" (1 excerpt)
Roud #10577
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "We're All Waiting for a Girl" (tune, according to Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver)
File: AWTBW064

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