We'll Meet Again (song)
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"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 song made famous by British singer Vera Lynn with music written by Ross Parker and words by Hughie Charles.
The song is one of the most famous songs of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight and their families and sweethearts. The assertion that "we'll meet again" is optomistic, as many soldiers of course did not survive to see their loved ones again. Indeed, the meeting place at some unspecified time in the future would have seen by many who lost loved ones to be heaven.
The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again in which Vera Lynn played the lead role. The song is also featured in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 movie using a version sung by Dame Vera.
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters makes reference to this song and the performer in "Vera," a song from the Pink Floyd album The Wall: "Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?/Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day?"
Also this song is regurlarly used in the English football league, and is often sung to teams getting relegated, a good example of this was in the Tyne-wear derby where the Newcastle United fans sang it to the relegated Sunderland FC who had also recently broken a club record by recording the lowest points total in a Premiership Season.
Johnny Cash covered this song on the last album that was released when he was alive, his 2002 . It is the last track on the album. Additionally, on January 5, 2006, the captain on the final flight of Independence Air played the Lynn version of the song over the public address system upon landing at Washington Dulles International Airport
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