{"id":6368,"date":"2022-01-14T15:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T15:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:40:01","slug":"the-longest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/the-longest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest Day, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-weight: bolder; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Many [G] men come here as [D7] soldiers.    Many [Am] men will pass this [G] way.  Many [G] men will count the [C] hours, as they [D7] live the longest [G] day\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/chords\/E\/CH min 6.jpg\" height=\"125\" align=\"right\" \/>\r\nMany [G] men are tired and [D7] weary.   Many [Am] men are here to [G] stay.  Many [G] men won't see the [C] sunset, when it [D7] ends the longest [G] day.\r\n\r\nThe [C] longest day the [Bm] longest day.  [C] This will be the [Bm] longest day.  [Em] Filled with hopes and [D] filled with fears. [Em6] Filled with blood and [D7] sweat and tears\r\n\r\nMany [G] men the mighty [D7] thousands: Many [Am] men to [G] victory.  Marching [G] on right into [C] battle.   In the [D7] longest day in [G] history.  The [D7] longest day in [G] history<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\"> <span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_3\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"><\/span><\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since this is a song about the soldiers liberating France from the Nazi invasion, the words are also prevalent in French on the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Nous [G] irons vers la [D7] victoire.<\/strong><\/span>  \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Par le [Am] sang des [G] compagnons<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Qui ont [G] fait marcher [C] l'histoire.<\/strong><\/span>  \r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>En [D7] mourant pour le jour le plus [G] long.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Le [C] jour est long, Le [Bm] jour est long.  \r\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[C] Et la peur est [Bm] tout au fond<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[Em] Mais l'espoir est [D] tout en rond.  \r\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[Em6] Et les cris sont [D7] des millions<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 900;\"><strong>Nous [G] irons vers la [D7] victoire.  \r\nPar le [Am] sang des [G] compagnons \r\nQui ont [G] fait marcher [C] l'histoire.  \r\nEn [D7] mourant pour le jour le plus [G] long.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many [G] men come here as [D7] soldiers. Many [Am] men will pass this [G] way. Many [G] men will count the [C] hours, as they [D7] live the longest [G] day Many [G] men are tired and [D7] weary. Many [Am] men are here to [G] stay. Many [G] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/the-longest-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longest Day, The<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,133,126,265,116,117,94,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-patriotic-songs","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30195,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/30195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}