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  1. keep the home fires burningverb

    To maintain daily routine and provide the necessities of life in a home or community.

  2. Etymology: A reference to keeping campfires, lights, etc. at one's home village burning, often while part of the population travels elsewhere to hunt, etc.

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  1. Keep the Home Fires Burning

    Keep the Home-Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home) is a British patriotic First World War song composed in 1914 by Ivor Novello with words by Lena Guilbert Ford (whose middle name was sometimes printed as "Gilbert"). The song was published first as "'Till the Boys Come Home" on 8 October 1914 by Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew Ltd. in London. A new edition was printed in 1915 with the name Keep the Home-Fires Burning. The song became very popular in the United Kingdom during the war, along with It's a Long Way to Tipperary. James F. Harrison recorded Keep the Home-Fires Burning in 1915, as did Stanley Kirkby in 1916. Another popular recording was sung by tenor John McCormack in 1917, who was also the first to record It's a Long Way to Tipperary in 1914. (See External links below to hear these recordings of Keep the Home-Fires Burning.) Other versions include one by Frederick J. Wheeler and one by the duet Reed Miller & Frederick Wheeler. There is a misconception that Ivor Novello's mother wrote the lyrics for the song (propagated—for example—by patter in recorded performances of British musical comedy duo Hinge and Bracket) but Lena Ford (an American) was a friend and collaborator of Novello, not a blood relation.

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  1. Keep the Home Fires Burning

    "Keep the Home Fires Burning" is a song by The Bluetones, released as the first single from their third album, Science & Nature. It peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. Its music video was directed by Edgar Wright. In 2006, the song was included on the band's two-disc compilation album, A Rough Outline: The Singles & B-Sides 95–03. An acoustic U.S.-released version of the song is featured on the second disc.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of keep the home fires burning in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of keep the home fires burning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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  • الحفاظ على الحرائق المنزل حرقArabic
  • Hold hjemmebrændene brændendeDanish
  • Halten Sie die Feuer zu Hause am BrennenGerman
  • mantener el fuego del hogarSpanish
  • garder le feu à la maisonFrench
  • mantenere accesi i fuochi domesticiItalian
  • håll hembranden brinnandeSwedish

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