Quand la Guerre Est Fini (Those Terrible Americans and their Souvenirs)
DESCRIPTION: Bastardized (literally) French: "Quand la guerre est finis, Les Americans parti, Laisez les pauvres Francaises Un souvenir Bebe." Verses tell the same story in different words: When the war ends, the American soldiers will leave French girls with babies
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Niles/Moore-SongsMyMotherNeverTaughtMe)
KEYWORDS: soldier foreignlanguage baby adultery abandonment bastard
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Niles/Moore-SongsMyMotherNeverTaughtMe, pp. 55-57, "Quand la Guerre Est Fini (Those Terrible Americans and their Souvenirs)" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: NiM055
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