wellpresseddaisy | (no subject)

If anyone is wondering where There’s a Silver Lining Through a Dark Cloud Shining came from as a title, it’s a takeoff on a line from one of my favorite WWI songs: Keep the Home Fires Burning. The best version is the Michael Feinstein one. It’s lovely and haunting and hopeful.

They were summoned from the hillside

They were called in from the glen,

And the country found them ready

At the stirring call for men.

Let no tears add to their hardships

As the soldiers pass along,

And although your heart is breaking

Make it sing this cheery song

Keep the Home Fires Burning,

While your hearts are yearning,

Though your lads are far away

They dream of home.

There’s a silver lining

Through the dark clouds shining,

Turn the dark cloud inside out

‘Til the boys come home.

Overseas there came a pleading,

“Help a nation in distress.”

And we gave our glorious laddies

Honour bade us do no less,

For no gallant son of freedom

To a tyrant’s yoke should bend,

And a noble heart must answer

To the sacred call of “Friend.”