Laughing Into 1939

Album: Between The Wars (1995)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song takes place in Europe on New Year's Eve 1939. With the party in full swing, a young man looks forward to kissing the girl who has been leading him on "Under a mistletoe moon;" the royals come out onto the palace balcony, and the crowd goes wild, nobody suspecting that in 9 months time they will be plunged into a years' long holocaust of unimaginable proportions, after which the world will never be the same again. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander - London, England

Comments: 1

  • Matt from CaThe girl in the first two verses is the UK, being watched by Germany.
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