Details
- Ensembles:
- Brass Band Brass Ensemble
- Genres:
- Patriotic Traditional
- Publishers:
- BJE Music
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Set of Parts Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Intermediate
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 38
SKU: A0.750898
Composed by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott (1916). Arranged by Brendan Elliget MAGA 537. Patriotic,Traditional. Score and parts. 38 pages. BJE Music #4413147. Published by BJE Music (A0.750898)."Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to "Blighty" - a slang term for Britain.
Fred Godfrey wrote the song with Bennett Scott and A.J. Mills after passing a music hall in Oxford where a show called Blighty was showing. He recounts: "One of us suddenly said "What an idea for a song!" Four hours later it was all finished, and the whole country was singing it soon afterwards. I got - not very much.
The chorus lyric "Take me back to dear old Blighty/Put me on a train to London town" was included in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. [Wikipedia}
This arrangement is for Brass Band with optional Piano part (not on the score) and Vocal Lead Sheet.
The MP3 was recorded with NotePerformer 3.
Grade = 3 Duration = 2:30 mins (2 Verses and two Choruses with repeat).
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