The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #4267   Message #971718
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
24-Jun-03 - 02:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Gary Owen (not the old one)
Subject: RE: LYRICS for GARY OWEN (not the old one)
The Errol Flynn - Olivia De Havilland movie "They Died with Their Boots On" (1941) features the tune "Garryowen" prominently. A verse or two of the original lyric also show up, but they have been rewritten. (As a Custer "biography," the film is largely fantasy, but it's great entertainment nonetheless.) The name "Garryowen" anglicizes the Irish for "Owen's Garden," an 18th-century Dublin neighborhood.