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Thread #32702 Message #3462089
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
06-Jan-13 - 09:43 AM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: Napoleon Bonaparte
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Add: Napoleon Bonaparte
Nice finds regardless.
Frank Harte recorded an entire collection of Napoleon ballads some years ago.
I can recall being mesmerized in the distant past by Dolores Keane's beautifully sung "The Green Linnet" on the Chieftains' "Bonaparte's Retreat" album. No wonder it gave its name to a record company.
"The Grand Conversation of Napoleon" also appeals to me.
Its final stanza seems to allude to the Crimean War, making it perhaps the very last of the Napoleon songs.