{"id":435,"date":"2023-06-16T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/?page_id=435"},"modified":"2023-06-16T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:02:05","slug":"old-gallipolis-a-wonderful-place","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/old-gallipolis-a-wonderful-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Gallipoli&#8217;s A Wonderful Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Old Gallipoli&#039;s A Wonderful Place. First World War Songs From The Trenches.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HQnp6PlA79k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sung To The Tune &#8220;Mountains Of Mourne&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, old Gallipoli&#8217;s a wonderful place<br \/>\nWhere the boys in the trenches the foe have to face,<br \/>\nBut they never grumble, they smile through it all,<br \/>\nVery soon they expect Achi Baba to fall.<br \/>\nAt least when I asked them, that&#8217;s what they told me<br \/>\nIn Constantinople quite soon we would be,<br \/>\nBut if war lasts till Doomsday I think we&#8217;ll still be<br \/>\nWhere old Gallipoli sweeps down to the sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">******<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t grow potatoes or barley or wheat,<br \/>\nSo we&#8217;re on the lookout for something to eat,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re fed up with biscuits and bully and ham<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;re sick of the sight of yon parapet jam.<br \/>\nSend out steak and onions and nice ham and eggs<br \/>\nAnd a fine big fat chicken with five or six legs,<br \/>\nAnd a drink of the stuff that begins with a &#8220;B&#8221;<br \/>\nWhere the old Gallipoli sweeps down to the sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">******<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Repeat First Verse<\/p>\n<p>One of the rare songs written by the soldiers in Gallipoli and was sung to the tune The Mountains Of Mourne. The hill of Achi Baba was never captured and Galipoli was evacuated in January 1916, nine months after the original landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sung To The Tune &#8220;Mountains Of Mourne&#8221; Oh, old Gallipoli&#8217;s a wonderful place Where the boys in the trenches the foe have to face, But they never grumble, they smile through it all, Very soon they expect Achi Baba to fall. At least when I asked them, that&#8217;s what they told me In Constantinople quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-435","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}