“When They Sound the Last All Clear” is a song written by Vera Lynn. This song was written in 1941. Vera Lynn wrote many very famous songs in England and all of her songs were very famous and popular during the WWII era. Vera was born in 1917 and is still living today. She turned 99 years old on March 20.
Vera has been writing and composing music her whole life. “When They Sound the Last All Clear” is just one song out of her thirty two songs she and written and sang. Many of her songs were written during the WWII era which was from 1939 all the way through 1945. She did not stop writing at the end of the war, but many songs were written during. Writing music was and still is her love and passion.
Although she was a English song writer,
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The fifth one is the repeat of the second verse. I feel like they said these two twice because they were the best written and meant a lot to everybody that listened to this song. These lines touched the hearts of the soldiers fight and the spouses back at home worrying about their loved ones. Many of Vera Lynn’s song were written with meanings like this one had. They were all written with the intention of touching the hearts of everybody back at home and also the soldiers fighting. Towards the end of the war, Vera began to have live outdoor concerts for the troops still fight on the battlefields. After the war Vera was not done pleasing people. She continued to write music but she also helped out with many other issues going on at the time. She spent a lot of time with soldiers that were struggling after the war and helping many children impacted but everything that went …show more content…
When she started focusing in on that, she really became a big star. She began to set many new records and many of her songs were very high on the charts. Many songs got on the charts and didn’t come off for several months. Vera has still not ended her career yet today. Although she is done singing she is still active in the entertainment world. A few years ago she was on several late night television show sharing her past stories in