Where Are the Lads of the Village Tonight?

DESCRIPTION: "The West End's not the same tonight The lights aren't shining quite so bright...." "Where are the lads of the village tonight? Where are the nuts we knew? In Piccadilly? In Leicester square? No, not there"; they have gone to war. They are missed
AUTHOR: R. P. Weston & Herman Datewski (source: various music hall web sites)
EARLIEST DATE: 1914 (Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: soldier separation hunting
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 184, "Where are the boys of the village tonight?" (1 fragment)
Roud #25462
NOTES [27 words]: Said to have been performed by George Lashwood (1863-1942). For the long list of songs by R. P. Weston, or Weston and Bert Lee, see the notes to "Goodbye-ee." - RBW
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File: KSUC184A

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