{"id":452,"date":"2023-06-16T08:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/?page_id=452"},"modified":"2023-06-16T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:50:03","slug":"i-wore-a-tunic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/i-wore-a-tunic\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wore A Tunic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First World War Songs From The Trenches I Wore A Tunic\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0PCaYYcuDQw?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;I Wore A Tulip&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I wore a tunic,<br \/>\nAn old khaki tunic,<br \/>\nWhile you wore your civvie clothes,<br \/>\nWe fought and bled at Loos<br \/>\nWhile you were on the booze,<br \/>\nThe booze no one here knows.<br \/>\nYou were with the wenches<br \/>\nWhile we were in the trenches<br \/>\nFacing the German foe.<br \/>\nOh, you were a-slacking<br \/>\nWhile we were attacking<br \/>\nThe Boche up the Menin Road.<\/p>\n<p>This was a song sung by Kitchener&#8217;s Army about the conscripts who came out in 1917. After Loos and The Somme, Kitchener&#8217;s Army were by 1917, considered hardened veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sung To The Tune &#8220;I Wore A Tulip&#8221; I wore a tunic, An old khaki tunic, While you wore your civvie clothes, We fought and bled at Loos While you were on the booze, The booze no one here knows. You were with the wenches While we were in the trenches Facing the German foe. [&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-452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452","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=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}