Vintage Audio: Down In The U-17
Updated - Sunday, 27 September, 2003

Recorded in 1916 by popular performer Billy Murray - who also recorded such widespread favourites as K-K-K-Katy, Over There, Yankee Doodle Boy and Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You - Down In The U-17 referred to German U-boats of the period.

Click here to listen to Murray performing the song in the year preceding America's entry into the war (MP3 format 465kb).

"Suicide Ditch" was a term used by British soldiers to refer to the front-line trench.

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