"The Battle of Chevy Chase" for instance, about a Scottish victory over the English, possibly dates as far back as the fourteenth century and definitely to the sixteenth century. For centuries there have been ballads about wars. Songs about war have been composed for centuries.
Again, " Bombed Last Night" was not popular with officers, as it bemoaned the lack of gas respirators, "one respirator for the four of us". " Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire" poked bitter fun at the politicians and army hierarchy who were out of harm's way whilst the whole battalion were "hanging on the old barbed wire".
However, they would probably have complained about the songs which began to emerge in the trenches which had a more anti-war and anti-establishment theme. Officers would probably have disapproved of the bawdier songs, but turned a deaf ear.
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