# "We'll Meet Again........ (Johnny Cash) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 4, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928 "2003-03-04T03:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/1 "2003-03-04T03:53:30Z")
…don’t know where, don’t know when, but we’ll meet again some sunny day." This is the last tune on Johnny Cash’s CD **American IV: The Man Comes Around** , and every time I listen to it, I get blurry-eyed. The reason is because the song puts me in mind of an old WWII song by Vera Lynn called _Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart_. This post won’t mean anything to a lot of you, but the Vera Lynn tune was my late Mother and Father’s favorite song while my Dad was stationed in Germany during WWII, and I know that Johnny Cash also spent some time there. What’s my point? Well, I think our Man In Black is telling us he may be leaving us soon, and he doesn’t want us to be sad about it. I saw no reason to post this in Cafe Society, but if the mods wish to move it there, that would be fine. Basically, I just wanted to write this down because I miss my Mom and Dad. Today is their anniversary, and they loved each other very much. Sorry if the subject led you astray, but thanks for reading this, if you did. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/2 "2003-03-04T03:57:05Z")
“Give my love to Rose, Please won’t you Mister…” ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/3 "2003-03-04T03:58:52Z")
Thanks, **John** ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/4 "2003-03-04T09:02:08Z")
Yikes man, from reading your thread title, I honestly thought the Man in Black had gone to see the Man in White for real this time. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/5 "2003-03-04T15:00:07Z")
I thought **Vera Lynn** sang _We’ll Meet Again_—I’ve never heard of _Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart_. Wasn’t _WMA_ Vera’s theme song? ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/6 "2003-03-04T16:38:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Yikes man, from reading your thread title, I honestly thought the Man in Black had gone to see the Man in White for real this time. > > Carry on. \*\* I had the same exact scare. Don’t _do_ that! ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/7 "2003-03-05T00:31:59Z")
I am sorry. Please excuse me. Q ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/8 "2003-03-05T02:27:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*I thought **Vera Lynn** sang _We’ll Meet Again_—I’ve never heard of _Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart_. Wasn’t _WMA_ Vera’s theme song? \*\* Hmmm… I don’t know the other song, but We’ll Meet Again is a Vera Lynn song. It is at the end of Dr. Strangelove, among other places. Also, on Pink Floyd’s _The Wall_ there is a song about “We’ll Meet Again” called “Vera”: > [@](#): > > Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? > Remember how she said that > We would meet again > Some sunny day? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/9 "2003-03-05T04:52:22Z")
Well crikeys, does this mean that now I know who the guys talking about on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, when he says “Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn…?”. Quasi, your post is also timely because I head 'Auf Wiedersehen" plenty of times during the Ferris-Palooza showing of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off last weekend. GaK. I was just about to post this when I noticed the tail end of joshmaker’s post. I wasn’t the first to make the Floyd connection. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/10 "2003-03-05T06:36:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*I thought **Vera Lynn** sang _We’ll Meet Again_—I’ve never heard of _Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart_. Wasn’t _WMA_ Vera’s theme song? > [@](#): > > Hmmm… I don’t know the other song, but We’ll Meet Again is a Vera Lynn song. It is at the end of Dr. Strangelove, among other places. \*\*Uhh, doesn’t “auf wiedersehen” means, roughly, “see you again”. (“Wiedersehen” — “to meet again”). They’re the same song. Unless I’m being whooshed, of course. Won’t the first time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/11 "2003-03-05T17:05:33Z")
There is a completely different song called _Auf Wiedersehen_—I have a 1930s record of British singer Al Bowlly singing it. Was _We’ll Meet Again_ ever translated into (or from) German? ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/12 "2003-03-05T17:11:16Z")
Isn’t “We’ll Meet Again” the song they play at the end of Dr. Strangelove? Or am I Clueless Archergal today? If so, it has rather creepy connotations for me. ---
**Author:** ![waits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df788c/32.png) [@waits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waits)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-meet-again-johnny-cash/158928/13 "2003-03-05T19:37:47Z")
Yes, that is the song used at the end of _Dr. Strangelove_. And the Byrds did a version as the last song on their first album.