![]() ![]() I had been too unwell to return to the weekly ukulele sessions that I enjoyed so much and was feeling very depressed.Īround that time I bumped into Kevin Parsons a couple of times in the street. In April 2014, I was still very ill, recovering from a severe bout of Sepsis in late 2013. ![]() I also felt that the sound of the banjo was not quite right either, not just that I could not play it well enough. Somehow I could not quite get the song right. It made me think of the stories that my father told about his experiences as a Despatch Rider during the Dunkirk Evacuation. That and the rather sad, spooky sound of the banjo is what started me off writing this song. There was a sort of “sound effect” that, to me, sounded like a motor bike being started and revving up. Be thankful that I am not going to inflict any recordings of that on you! ![]() I liked playing around with the sounds that I could make on it. At the time, I had a Tenor Banjo that I tuned DGBE (“Chicago Tuning”). I started writing this song in April 2014 and kept getting completely stuck with it. U-101 is then attacked for 8 hours with 41 depth charges by the convoy escorts, but survives. 22 survivors are rescued by the Brandenburg and landed at London. Sirocco goes down flying the 92nd Regiment’s colours.ġ4 miles Southeast of Lowestoft, England, Sloop HMS Weston sinks U-13 with depth charges (all 26 crew, are rescued and taken prisoner).Īt 2 PM, U-101 attacks convoy HG-31F and sinks British SS Orangemoor carrying 8150 tons of iron ore 25 miles West of Guernsey (18 crew lost). Sirocco is then sunk by German bombing with 180 crew and 700 men of the 92nd French Infantry Regiment on board (59 crew and over 600 French troops die). In addition to the British small craft, 39 Dutch coasters (that escaped the German occupation) assist the evacuation, saving a total of 22,698 men during the whole operation.įrench destroyer Sirocco and Cyclone are torpedoed by German Schnellboote. The evacuation continues in full swing embarking 68,014 Allied troops including General Lord Gort, commander of the BEF (45,072 from Dunkirk harbour & 22,942 off the beaches). Despite the clouds, French destroyer Leopard and British destroyers HMS Express, Icarus, Keith & Winchelsea are damaged by German bombing. After the carnage of German bombing of the last 2 days, cloudy weather restricts Luftwaffe activity & the Admiralty returns the modern destroyers to Dunkirk. Sound cool? Download Songsheet Generator.Operation Dynamo. * Fixed the problem where the Full Screen Presentation would start with a blank screen. * Fixed incorrect wrapping of long lines in the Table of Contents. Some problems were found with this under Java 1.4.2, however, so the progress dialog is only shown when the Java version is J2SE 5.0 or higher. * Added a progress dialog that indicates printing progress and allows a print job to be canceled. * Improved printing performance, which would degrade exponentially with the number of items in the print list. * Songbooks are now saved in a format that preserves international characters. Also Songsheet Generator will import some basic tab (CRD) files, so you can print a songsheet or songbook from any songs you might already have in that format. Song files must be provided in the ChordPro format, a common text format found on the internet (ChordPro files are easy to make yourself, if you can't find the song you're looking for). The program runs on Microsoft Windows (native. Songsheet Generator is an application which prints songsheets and songbooks for home, small group, or large group overhead use.
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