25 Jul 1942, Barbara Anslow's diary
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Grand concert on Bowling Green. Good new song - 'We're going to sail away, sail away etc
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'We know internment here will end one day; we want to go; we've got to go, for we're longing to see the land that we love so....
There'll be happy hearts and free, when we're going out to sea, Afloat on a boat on the way to Lourenco Marques.'
- rumoured to be our destination for exchange if ever we were repatriated))
I had a row with a man over my programme (I one of the lucky ones who had one.)
Mrs Drown (piano) in white pierrot dress with black bobbles, white collar coiffe and frills round her wrists. Ian Heath played piano too. June Winkelman and another child did a good acrobatic turn. Eve Gray (a teacher I think) was good, even when forgetting her lines.
Olive met Paddy Gill's wife Billie, she has asked us to go to tea next Friday. ((Paddy Gill was an Army friend of our family up to early 1940 when he was sent to UK. We knew he married her before his departure, but we had never met her; she had a baby boy later that year.))
Launches came for the Shanghailanders, but departure postponed again.
In morning we went to cemetery, saw launches come for the Shanghailanders, but they were postponed again.
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Barbara: I have a photocopy
Barbara:
I have a photocopy of the words of Sail Away with illustrations by your old boss M. L. Bevan (dated 1943).
It's a bit faded but the signature seems to be Cyril Brown - is that your memory of the authorship?