We Beat 'Em on the Marne

DESCRIPTION: We beat 'em on the Marne, We beat 'em on the Aisne, They gave us hell at Neuve Chapelle But here we are again."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1931 (Brophy/Partridge-TommiesSongsAndSlang)
KEYWORDS: war nonballad soldier
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
Sep 6-10, 1914 - Battle of the Marne, in which the French and British beat back the German attempt to encircle Paris (and so caused World War One to change from a battle of maneuver to a marathon of trench warfare)
Sep 13, 1914 - Beginning of the French counter-attack on the Germans, sometimes called the First Battle of the Aisne
Mar 10-13, 1915 - The British attempt an offensive at Neuve Chapelle in Artois, but fail to significantly alter the situation
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brophy/Partridge-TommiesSongsAndSlang, p. 39, "We Beat 'Em" (1 text)
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #45, "Here We Are Again" (1 short text, 1 tune, with the first lines perhaps from "Here We Are Again" but the final four lines being "We Beat 'Em on the Marne")
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. 202, "(We beat 'em on the Marne)" (1 excerpt with notes)
Roud #10928
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Coming Through the Rye" (tune) and references there
File: BrPa039A

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