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14 Nov 97 - 04:05 AM (#16173) Subject: LYR REQ: The Captains and the Kings From: Håvard Hi Ronnie Drew sings an excellent ironic song about England and Englishmen called "The Captains and the Kings" Does anyone have the lyrics for this song? Håvard |
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14 Nov 97 - 05:07 PM (#16205) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: Jerry Friedman Sorry, I don't, but when you get them you might want to compare them to Kipling's poem "Recessional" . |
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20 Nov 97 - 04:43 PM (#16441) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: Martin Ryan Song was written by Brendan Behan, the Dublin playwright. I'll post words if I can find them. Regards |
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22 Nov 97 - 07:51 PM (#16525) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca "Recessional" was the best poem Kipling ever wrote. |
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25 Nov 97 - 12:45 PM (#16653) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: Nonie Rider Now, let's not start a "best" contest. It's one of his damned good ones, no argument. However, some might say it was a little inaccesible to unschooled ears: "Such boastings as the Gentiles use/Or lesser breeds without the Law," and so on, when he's NOT talking about being Jewish. Myself, my favorite Kipling to SING is the section from "Song of the Dead": "We have fed our sea for a thousand years/And she calls us, still unfed." Fits pretty damned well into "Haul Away, Joe", and gets good sing-along for the incremental "If blood be the price of admiralty" line. My favorite to LISTEN to? Of all things, "The First Chantey", as performed by Leslie Fish. I'd always dismissed it as neo-prehistory with a little too much (metaphorical) bashing one's cave-wife over the head with a rock, but Fish conveys the SENSE of it, and with a most haunting tune. Of course, Michael Longcor's version of "The Irish Guards, 1915" ain't half bad either... including his hilarious introduction: "In World War I, the Irish suddenly found themselves in the unusual position of being on the SAME SIDE as the English!" |
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17 Dec 97 - 07:55 PM (#17782) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: |
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18 Dec 97 - 04:55 PM (#17879) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: Martin Ryan If the blank entry above is intended as a hint - I'll take it after Christmas! Regards |
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22 Jul 07 - 03:12 PM (#2108701) Subject: Lyr Add: CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS (Brendan Behan) From: GUEST Captains and the Kings I remember in September when the final stumps were drawn And the shouts of crowds now silent when the boys had gone to tea Let us oh Lord above us remember simple things When all are dead who love us well the Captains and the Kings When all are dead who love us well the Captains and the Kings We have many goods for export Christian ethics and old port But our greatest boast is that the Anglo Saxon is a sport When the darts game it is finished and the boys their game of rings The draughts and chess relinquished well the Captains and the Kings The draughts and chess relinquished well the Captains and the Kings Far away in dear old Cyprus or in Kenya's dusty land Where all bear the white man's burden in many a strange land As we look across our shoulder in West Belfast the school bell rings And we sigh for dear old England and the Captains and the Kings And we sigh for dear old England and the Captains and the Kings In our dreams we see old Harrow and we hear the crows loud caw At the flower show our big marrow takes the prize from Evelyn Waugh Cups of tea and some dry sherry vintage cars these simple things Let us drink up and be merry for the Captains and the Kings Let us drink up and be merry for the Captains and the Kings As I wandered in a nightmare all around Great Windsor Park Well what do you think I found there as I wandered in the dark It was an apple half-bitten the sweetest of all things Five baby teeth they'd written of the Captains and the Kings Five baby teeth they'd written of the Captains and the Kings By the moon that shines above us in the misty morning light Let us cease to run ourselves down and thank God that we are white And better still we're English tea and toast and muffin rings And old ladies with stern faces well the Captains and the Kings Old ladies with stern faces well the Captains and the Kings |
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22 Jul 07 - 03:30 PM (#2108709) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: Effsee Why is the name "James Joyce" echoing round my memory banks? |
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22 Jul 07 - 06:01 PM (#2108792) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: Jim McLean Second line, Guest, 'When the boys to tea had gone' (from memory but I have the EP sung by Dominic Behan) |
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22 Jul 07 - 06:28 PM (#2108809) Subject: RE: LYR REQ: Captains and the Kings From: masato sakurai See also this previous thread: The Captain and the Kings. |