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Billy MurrayVintage Audio: The Lanky Yankee Boys in Blue
 Updated - Saturday, 14 June, 2003

Available to listen to below is a humorous tune which saw some popularity in the U.S. during the First World War, The Lanky Yankee Boys in Blue.  The song was written by Theodore F. Morse (music) and Edward Madden (lyrics) and was published by F. B. Haviland in New York in 1908.

Click here to listen to a 1908 recording of the song performed by the prolific Billy Murray (MP3 format 888kb)

"ANZAC" was coined in 1915 from the initials of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

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