17 women's songs wives soldiers, prisoner's 17 

17 women's songs wives soldiers, prisoner' s16       1 june, '03   the coding 'women's songs' could, perhaps, profitably be divided into four categories;
 songs of women in the service, songs by soldiers wives and significant others, and songs by women who by unfortunate circumstance found themselves with service women and happened to share their conditions of service;
 fourth, songs of civilian women about their life experience due to exigencies of war time;
 amongst the songs not encountered, but which I'm sure must exist, are songs by 'canaries',
female munition workers.
 a category not coded, or explored in this collection and analysis is soldier's songs about women in the service.
 I have not included this category because it would include soldier's fantasies like versions of 'the female drummer'.
 it is acknowledged, however, that women have been integral in service life, and share soldier's living conditions and service from time immemorial 'women with stone's in lap to the wall's bringing',
molly pitcher and the battle of brandywine, through to pvt.
 jessica lynch, who will quite likely be the first female medal of honour or vc winner, and deservedly so.
 I also remember, though I know not the name, of the female french journalist who humped with us at dak to, onto hill 882, where she took over the m-60 and crew of hart when he was wounded, and fought and served well, with the respect of her gun crew.
the songs: <![if !supportlists]>1.
<![endif]>  tramp tramp tramp, boer war <![if !supportlists]>2.
<![endif]>  my soldier daddy, boer war to ww2 <![if !supportlists]>3.
<![endif]>  hard times come again no more, boer <![if !supportlists]>4.
<![endif]>  sing a song of wartime, ww1 <![if !supportlists]>5.
<![endif]>  female recruiter, ww1 to present <![if !supportlists]>6.
<![endif]>  'got your back',
present <![if !supportlists]>7.
<![endif]>  suvla/suda bay ww1, ww2 <![if !supportlists]>8.
<![endif]>  perthville road to german, ww1 to vietnam <![if !supportlists]>9.
<![endif]>  our tim, ww1, ww2 <![if !supportlists]>10.
<![endif]>  mein michel, ww1, ww2 <![if !supportlists]>11.
<![endif]>  captives hymn, ww2 to present <![if !supportlists]>12.
<![endif]>  palembang camp, ww2 <![if !supportlists]>13.
<![endif]>  awas lament, ww@ <![if !supportlists]>14.
<![endif]>  greenbank girls, ww2 to vietnam (?
) present?
) <![if !supportlists]>15.
<![endif]>  the tears of vicki nairne, present (timor) <![if !supportlists]>16.
<![endif]>  penny evans, vietnam to present