{"id":54,"date":"2023-04-05T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2023-04-05T06:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T06:41:59","slug":"keep-the-home-fires-burning-sung-by-john-mccormack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/keep-the-home-fires-burning-sung-by-john-mccormack\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep The Home Fires Burning Sung By John McCormack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keep The Home Fires Burning Sung By John McCormack\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WvuCaLRcgh4?start=52&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They were summoned from the hillside, they were called in from the glen,<br \/>\nAnd the country found them ready at the stirring call for men.<br \/>\nLet no tears add to their hardships, as the soldiers pass along,<br \/>\nAnd although your heart is breaking, make it sing this cheery song:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Keep the Home Fires burning,<br \/>\nWhile your hearts are yearning,<br \/>\nThough your lads are far away they dream of home.<br \/>\nTheres a silver lining, through the dark clouds shining,<br \/>\nTurn the dark cloud inside out, &#8217;till the boys come home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Overseas there came a pleading,<br \/>\n&#8220;Help a nation in distress.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd we gave our glorious laddies, honour bade us do no less,<br \/>\nFor no gallant son of freedom to a tyrant&#8217;s yoke should bend,<br \/>\nAnd a noble heart must answer to the sacred call of &#8220;Friend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Keep the Home Fires Burning,<br \/>\nWhile your hearts are yearning,<br \/>\nThough your lads are far away they dream of home.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a silver lining, through the dark clouds shining,<br \/>\nTurn the dark cloud inside out &#8217;till the boys come home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55\" style=\"width: 708px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keep-The-Home-Fires-Burning-Music-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-image-55 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keep-The-Home-Fires-Burning-Music-698x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Download Keep The Home Fires Burning Sheet Music\" width=\"698\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keep-The-Home-Fires-Burning-Music-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keep-The-Home-Fires-Burning-Music-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keep-The-Home-Fires-Burning-Music-768x1127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keep-The-Home-Fires-Burning-Music-1047x1536.jpg 1047w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keep-The-Home-Fires-Burning-Music-1396x2048.jpg 1396w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Keep-The-Home-Fires-Burning-Music-scaled.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keep The Home Fires Burning Sheet Music<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tune of this song and the key phrase of the chorus was written by a twenty one year old Royal Naval Air Service pilot called Ivor Novello. The lyrics were written by an American poet Lena Gilbert Ford who was living in London at the time. The song was immensely popular in 1914 when it was written and Ivor Novello was brought back to the Home Front to raise morale by writing West End revues that entertained Londoners and troops who were home on leave. He went on after the war to write a succession of hit musicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; They were summoned from the hillside, they were called in from the glen, And the country found them ready at the stirring call for men. Let no tears add to their hardships, as the soldiers pass along, And although your heart is breaking, make it sing this cheery song: Keep the Home Fires burning, [&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-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/WW1MusicAndSongs\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}