Talk:We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line

Written in 1967
I thought this song was made up by Dick Lester and his script writer for How I Won the War from 1967? And what about that so-called "parody"? That looks like a mere German adaption of the same song. --Tlatosmd 02:47, 15 April 2007 (UTC)


 * It's mentioned in a historical context in Osprey's "France 1940: Blitzkrieg in the West". My older edition, on page 67, says (circa mid-May 1940) "Von Stackelberg, a war diarist with one of the motorized infantry regiments, came on two German soldiers playing We're going to hang out our washing on the Siegfried Line (sic) on a "liberated" gramophone. Standing nearby was a French Colonel who watched in dismay the columns of prisoners marching by." The song is mentioned a few times on the BBC's "People's War" website  and it is credited to a man called Jimmy Kennedy here. -Ashley Pomeroy 15:46, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Possible copyright violation
If the poem/song was written in the years indicated, then it is potentially under copyright, and then not available to be replicated here. I believe that measures should be taken to identify this works copyright status. At that point, if not under copyright, we can then look to transfer the lyrics to Wikisource. -- billinghurst (talk) 20:52, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Copyright query
billinghurst (talk)

The song was written in 1939 so is clearly still in copyright. I shall trim the lyrics.--Ole.Holm (talk) 20:25, 30 November 2009 (UTC)