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But the spirit that burned so brightly in petite Marie Lecoq, the spirit which enabled her to slap a British general and get away with it, the spirit which made her a toast of thousands of British and American soldiers, still burns brightly. We chatted at a cafe in a village well behind the lines where she now lives and Marie told me again how she inspired the famouse war song.

And then, in October , the Germans broke through and advanced to within a few miles of Armentieres. Mornings, before the cafe opened, Marie sold newspapers to the British troops, and once got into an argument over money which caused her to be taken before a general.

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She denied the tale which spread through the British army at the time that she slapped the general because he tried to kiss her. Marie married Private Marceau of the French army when he got leave, and her daughter Pauline, now a mother, was born during the war. But it is not too bad.


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Its primary subjects were drinking, lousy officers and the pursuit of sexual hijinks. It passes to us today, when it does at all, in a sanitized form. Mostly, it only passes to us as anecdotes. In fact, Miller was the piano player for legendary country pioneers, the Prairie Ramblers. The Sweet Violet Boys were indeed the Ramblers, operating under a pseudonym, possibly due to the risque nature of the recording. This was not the only time they recorded under this bit of camouflage.

But publishing is valuable and the music business has a shady history in this regard. The bon vivant feeling of standing shoulder to shoulder with your mates and fighting the evil Boche is built into the memory of the song that was sung while the battle raged. What has become of Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo? What has become of all the Jewish Soldiers too?


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  • There are numerous recordings of this song by various singers as well as sheet music versions endorsed by a variety of other singers currently archived in the Hinky Dinky News repository. No doubt, the connection to that filthy ditty appealed to their sense of humor. The structure of the verses is consistent, though there are couplet and triplet variants. Your list has reached the maximum number of items. Please create a new list with a new name; move some items to a new or existing list; or delete some items. Your request to send this item has been completed.

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