The D-Day Song, "Shores of Normandy," written by a 90-year-old veterinarian and sold by Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran

Jim Radford singing "Côtes de Normandie".
(Normandy Memorial Trust)

A 90-year-old D-Day veteran whose song about the WWII invasion surpasses the songs of artists such as Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran on Amazon's Singles charts, s & rsquo; Is said "overwhelmed" by the answer, according to a report.

Jim Radford was a 15-year-old bastard from the British Merchant Marines when the Allies stormed Normandy on June 6, 1944. He wrote "Shores of Normandy" after the 25th anniversary of the 1969 invasion and the song released by the Normandy Memorial Trust for the 75th commemoration, reported ABC News.

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"I did not know when I would be there that my first trip was going to be the invasion of Europe," he told ABC. "The song is to remember the brave guys who did not come back."

"I did not know when I went there that my first trip was going to be the invasion of Europe.The song is to remember the brave boys who did not come back."

– Jim Radford, 90, a veteran who wrote "The Banks of Normandy"

Radford said that in the heat of the moment, you do not think of a king, a country or democracy, you thought: "My friends depend on me, as I depend on them. " That stayed with me. "

"All those who were in Normandy, we all feel this connection with each other," he added.

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According to ABC News, the recipes of the "Banks of Normandy" will be used to build a new memorial.

"We knew that many would not come back," sums up a sentence from the song. "But all our hearts were true, we were on our way to Normandy, where we had a job to do."