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19 January 2016

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The verse reads:’Little brains of daughters/ Working in a band/ Have a mighty notion/ How to help the land./ Just as little WAAC girls/ Help the work of men/ So these little blue girls/ Help the WAAC and WREN.’ It’s rather hard to tell if this is straight or ironic… Maybe a bit of both: there is a slightly wry expression on the face of the ‘little blue girl’.

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