Concert Band - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.750841
Composed by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. Arranged by Brenndan Elliget MAGA 537. Patriotic. Score and parts. 49 pages. BJE Music #3872321. Published by BJE Music (A0.750841).
Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to Blighty - a slang term for Britain.
Fred Godfrey wrote the song with Bennett Scott and A.J. Mills after passing a music hall in Oxford where a show called Blighty was showing. He recounts: One of us suddenly said What an idea for a song! Four hours later it was all finished, and the whole country was singing it soon afterwards. I got - not very much.
The chorus lyric Take me back to dear old Blighty/Put me on a train to London town was included in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. [Wikipedia}
This arrangement is for Concert Band with optional Piano part (not on the score) and Vocal Lead Sheet.
There are parts for Eb and F Horns, and parts for Trombones 1 and 2 in BC and TC.
The MP3 was recorded with NotePerformer 3.
Grade = 3 Duration = 2:30 mins
