Wash Me In The Water From Oh What A Lovely War!

[@judehutchinson8355]

“Let thou servant depart in peace” *The soldiers march off getting yelled at*

[@MrDaiseymay]

GREATEST SATIRICAL ANTI-WAR FILM EVER MADE,

[@peterforden5917]

@Jack W didnt they jjust!

[@davidwright7193]

@Jack W The script was put together when you still had to get plays past the Lord Chamberlain before they could be performed. Hence the bowdlerisation, Joan Littlewood would have preferred authenticity to clean language. It’s not so bad Everton clean up there own crowds chants before playing them over the tannoy….

[@tdk9518]

Indeed. The first time I saw it I really didn't get it but I was young, now it breaks my heart.

[@rogueriderhood1862]

There's an alternative line to 'Wash me in the water that you washed your dirty daughter in', and it goes 'Wash me in the water that you washed the colonel's daughter in'. Usually sung when there were no officers present, I believe! My father told me he could remember his father singing this song when he (granddad) had had a few beers down the pub. A great film, if not necessarily to be taken as history.

[@peterforden5917]

Id have loved to hear their version of "the german officers crossed the rhine parley vous..." it probably wasnt what sang in school....

[@cyodylolgaming]

What was this film called ??

[@DoctorThomas23]

@@cyodylolgaming the Name of the movie is: oh what a lovely war

[@cyodylolgaming]

@@DoctorThomas23 cheers m8

[@Conn30Mtenor]

There were about fifty known verses of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres", all of them filthy.