River Kwai memorial for USS Houston survivors -Reply
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>Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:21:23 -0700
>From: Tracy Johnson
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>Subject: Re: River Kwai memorial for USS Houston survivors -Reply
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>The origin of the tune sounds good. Since it was stated the tune began
>before the war, it begs the following questions:
>
>Were there words to the music before the war or not?
>
>If there were, then what were the original words before the wartime
>ones?
>
>If there weren’t, then is it a typical case of words being added to an
>existing popular tune as in the case of the U.S. National Anthem?
>
>–
>Tracy Johnson
>ANSWERS, Manhattan Beach, CA
>Minister of Propaganda, Justin Thyme Productions
>tjohnson@adnetsol.com
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