23 closed society songs – 12
23 closed society songs – 15
tuesday, 3 june, '03
service society is a closed society;
 unless you are part of it, only the superficial is known, and that knowing is mediated by prejudices and stereotyping.
 all service songs are closed society codings, as they are not intended to be sung for the entertainment, or even education, of the uninitiated.
 I have, therefore, defined the songs in this coding that are written solely by and for a limited number of individual;
 from never orally sung, but kept solely in the singer – songwriters memory until they sang the songs for me;
 or were sung by no more than 5, a 'fire team',
leapfrogging team, to share events to which they alone have experienced.
 the songs:
1.
soldiers old 100 th
2.
high flight
3.
bold matelot
4.
fireball
5.
where was god?
6.
lights out
7.
bomb the town
8.
the rifleman's song
9.
digger's botany bay
10.
airborne all the way
11.
john's jingle bells
12.
empty brass
13.
pte lawrence (?
) c of e
14.
sing me to sleep
15.
suvla/suda bay