Apres la Guerre

DESCRIPTION: Pidgin French song about what will happen after the Great War: "Apres la guerre finie, Soldat Anglais parti, Mam'selle Fransay bokopleuray, Apres la guerre fini." The third line varies: "Mademoiselle in the family way." "Mademoiselle can go to hell."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Nettleingham-TommysTunes)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage humorous soldier pregnancy
FOUND IN: Britain CAnada(Newf)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brophy/Partridge-TommiesSongsAndSlang, p. 33, "Apres la Guerre" (1 text)
Arthur-WhenThisBloodyWarIsOver, p. 88, "Après la Guerre Fini" (1 text, tune referenced)
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #12, "Apres la Guerre" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10534
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sous les Ponts de Paris" (tune)
NOTES [40 words]: Although he quotes no lyrics, this is mentioned in George Allan England, Vikings of the Ice: Being the Log of a Tenderfoot on the Great Newfoundland Seal Hunt (also published as The Greatest Hunt in the World), Doubleday, 1924, p. 128. - RBW
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File: BrPa033B

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