In his volume, “The Grand Alliance” Churchill mentions that when he and Roosevelt met in the North Atlantic, they had a Sunday Service on board HMS Prince of Wales.
Roosevelt asked Churchill to select the hymns and one of those was “Onward Christian Soldiers”. I later saw a video of the service and Churchill is singing it from heart and Roosevelt is using a hymnal.
Churchill mentions that within a few months most of those young sailor were dead.
That song would never be allowed in today’s PC world.
Thanks for relating that.
My dad played piano and when he played OCS he definitely put some jazzy english on the keys...he loved that song. Made the Christian Soldiers march doubletime...*g*,