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O, we soldiers never die they simply fade away.’ Then another lot will come along with a mouth organ and old biscuit-tin band.

“‘Our soldiers never die, never die, never die. Sometime of late it’s the tune of ‘Kind words can never die,’ only they sing: Perhaps some of the men will come along after a march and you hear some one shout ‘ Are we down-hearted?’ The other take it up and it’s ‘No! No! No!’ along the lines. As they march we can hear them singing ragtimes or the song no English folk will ever forget, ‘It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary.’ I guess the Germans know that song by now.

It is interesting to see the men at work.

“Our patients are not wounded men from the front, but men of the garrison here who are ill or meet with accidents, etc. In a letter that she wrote, “ under date of October 19 ”, from Freshwater, Isle of Wight, to “ a relative in Wilmington”, “ a young woman nurse” clearly explained that the soldiers’ song parodies the hymn-this letter was published in the Wilmington Morning News (Wilmington, Delaware) of Thursday 12 th November 1914:

Kind words can never die, never die, never die, Music by Sister Abby, of the Hutchinson Family. Compiled by Horace Waters ( Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1859), by Horace Waters (1812-1893): Choice hymns and tunes, original and standard carefully and simply arranged as solos, duetts, trios, semi-choruses and choruses, and for organ, melodeon or piano. This is the beginning of the hymn, from the earliest version that I have found, published in The Sabbath-School Bell: A New Collection. This song is a parody of a hymn titled Kind Words Can Never Die. This phrase originated in a British Army song, one version of which was published in The Long Trail: What the British Soldier Sang and Said in The Great War of 1914–18 (London: Andre Deutsch, 1965), by the Anglo-Irish soldier, journalist and author John Brophy (1899-1965) and the New Zealand-born British lexicographer Eric Honeywood Partridge (1894-1979): The phrase old soldiers never die (they simply fade away) means that, although soldiers may live into old age, their lives and accomplishments fade into oblivion.