{"id":27486,"date":"2025-06-17T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=27486"},"modified":"2025-06-18T06:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:55:45","slug":"rose-of-no-mans-land-the","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/rose-of-no-mans-land-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose of no man’s land, The"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>La rose sous les boulets
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First Published<\/td>1918<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Louis Delamarre Janes A Brennan and Jack Caddigan<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN10704<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Dollie and Billie<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
LeClair, William ; USA : Maine : 1945
Payne, Ernie ; England : Avon : 1979
Chaplin, Ted England : Suffolk : Haughley 1985
Spicer, George England : Sussex : 1975 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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I've seen some beautiful flowers,
Grow in life's garden fair,
I've spent some wonderful hours,
Lost in their fragrance rare;
But I have found another,
Wondrous beyond compare.

There's a rose that grows on \"No Man's Land\"
And it's wonderful to see,
Tho' its spray'd with tears, it will live for years,
In my garden of memory.<\/em>
It's the one red rose the soldier knows,
It's the work of the Master's hand;
Mid the War's great curse, <\/em>
Stands the Red Cross Nurse,
She's the rose of \"No Man's Land\".<\/em>

Out of the heavenly splendour,
Down to the trail of woe,
God in his mercy has sent her,
Cheering the world below;
We call her \"Rose of Heaven\",
We've learned to love her so.

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A tribute to the Red Cross Nurses of World War 1, it was a big international hit in the early 1920s and revived in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some aspects of the song’s origins are not clear … I am pretty sure that the song was originally written in French by Louis Delamarre as “La rose sous les boulets”<\/em> and translated into English by Tin Pan Alley songwriters Janes A Brennan and Jack Caddigan, though the reverse may be true! In the British Halls it was initially associated with the singing of American sisters Dollie and Billie<\/strong><\/em>, but like so many hit-song imported from the US in the early 20th century, it was sung by a wide range of artistes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was widely remembered by traditional singers in the southeast of England..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A contemporary recording by Henry Burr(1918):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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