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Sheet music to "Roses of Picardy" Vintage Audio - 1919
Updated - Saturday, 16 August, 2003

This page of the Vintage Audio section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, skits and speeches from the year following the end of the war, 1919.

1919 was a year of continuing turmoil in the capitals of Europe; of growing demobilisation - and of resultant high unemployment.

Each recording is titled along with its performer. All files are either in MP3 or WAV format; the file size is indicated in kilobytes. Sound quality is, alas, sometimes poor, indicative of the state of the then art of sound recording. Lyrics and the text of speeches accompany many files listed.

	Roses of Picardy (Lyrics & Listen) John McCormack (MP3 406kb)
	Goodbye Broadway, Hello France (Lyrics & Listen) American Quartet (MP3 1,059kb)
	Sidney's in Civvies Again (Listen) Vesta Tilley (MP3 593kb)
	On the League of Nations (Words & Listen) Newton Baker (MP3 384kb)
	Warren G. Harding's Acceptance Speech (Listen) Warren G Harding (MP3 639kb)
	What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (Listen) Tom Clare (MP3 611kb)

A "Dixie" (from the Hindi degci) was an army cooking pot.