Artist: George Formby
Author: Jimmy Hughes/Frank Lake/Fred Godfrey
Label: Regal Zonophone
Year: 1940

B-side of Letting In The New Year. Written in 1917 (as The Long And The Short And The Tall) by Fred Godfrey alone, a Royal Naval Air Serviceman soon to join the RAF. His song wasn't published then for the obvious reason the lyrics couldn't leave the officer mess or frontline trenches without being banned. British demob-hit as Fuck 'Em All, no wonder there are no recordings as such. At the beginning of WW II, James Lally and Frank Kerslake (signing as Jimmy Hughes & Frank Lake), cleaned up the lyrics, resulting in an avalanche of recordings. Same Fred Godfrey also wrote Take Me Back To Dear Old Blighty, which became a WW I classic.

More films with Bless 'Em All: Guadalcanal Diary ('43), Marine Raiders ('44), The Captive Heart ('46), Chain Lightning ('50), The Blue Lamp ('50), Twelve O'Clock High ('50), Betrayed ('54), The Colditz Story ('57), The Young Lions ('58), The Desert Mice ('59), The Long And The Short And The Tall ('61), The Victors ('63) and The Thin Red Line ('64). Not to be confused with the Cheerio's by Spike Jones, Caterina Valente, Vanessa, Petula Clark and Jethro Tull.