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The bells of hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling
Rather surreal this - in trying to trace the tune I found that this song is (allegedly) not originally a war-song, but an honest-to-goodness Salvationist/Methodist hymn:
http://www.kuuf.org/Sermons/Get the Hell Out.htm
Here's a little on a famous Salvationist:
http://www.times1190.freeserve.co.uk/general.htm
It may have been expanded a little as a war song, but the implication of sending one's enemy to Hell was clearly in the original hymn.
Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.
"All their war and death song are happy, and all their love songs are sad."
Excellent quote, Helen . True, too!
(even if this song isn't an example)
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