{"id":187,"date":"2023-06-13T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T07:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2023-06-13T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T07:39:44","slug":"they-didnt-believe-me-sung-by-gladys-rice-walter-van-brunt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/they-didnt-believe-me-sung-by-gladys-rice-walter-van-brunt\/","title":{"rendered":"They Didn&#8217;t Believe Me Sung By Gladys Rice &#038; Walter Van Brunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"They Didn&#039;t Believe Me Sung By Walter Van Brunt and Gladys Rice 1915\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OhU8L-b2zfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Got the cutest little way,<br \/>\nLike to watch you all the day,<br \/>\nAnd it certainly seems fine<br \/>\nJust to think that you&#8217;ll be mine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When I see your pretty smile<br \/>\nMakes the living worth the while,<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ve got to run around<br \/>\nTelling people what I&#8217;ve found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And when I told them<br \/>\nHow beautiful you are<br \/>\nThey didn&#8217;t believe me!<br \/>\nThey didn&#8217;t believe me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your lips, your eyes, your cheeks,<br \/>\nyour hair are in a class beyond compare,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re the loveliest girl that one could see!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And when I tell them,<br \/>\nAnd I certn&#8217;ly am goin&#8217; to tell them,<br \/>\nThat I&#8217;m the man whose wife one day you&#8217;ll be.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll never believe me,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll never believe me,<br \/>\nThat from this great big world<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve chosen me!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Don&#8217;t know how it happen&#8217;d quite,<br \/>\nMay have been the summer night,<br \/>\nMay have been, well, who can say!<br \/>\nThings just happen any way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All I know is I said &#8220;Yes!&#8221;<br \/>\nHesitating more or less,<br \/>\nAnd you kissed me where I stood,<br \/>\nJust like any fellow would.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And when I told them how wonderful you are<br \/>\nThey didn&#8217;t believe me! They didn&#8217;t believe me!<br \/>\nYour lips, your eyes, your curly hair<br \/>\nare in a class beyond compare,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re the lovliest thing that one could see!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And when I tell them,<br \/>\nAnd I certn&#8217;ly am goin&#8217; to tell them,<br \/>\nThat I&#8217;m the girl whose boy one day you&#8217;ll be,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They&#8217;ll never believe me,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll never believe me,<br \/>\nThat from this great big world<br \/>\nyou&#8217;ve chosen me!<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the song&#8217;s arrival (the outbreak of World War I) meant that it was one of many songs adapted by soldiers in the trenches &#8211; on this occasion an ironic take on the allegedly &#8216;easy&#8217; life in the trenches.<br \/>\nIt is featured in that form (retitled &#8220;We&#8217;ll Never Tell Them&#8221;) at the end of Richard Attenborough&#8217;s 1969 film Oh! 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