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Thread #165251   Message #3961856
Posted By: Steve Gardham
15-Nov-18 - 04:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Napoleon's Dream
Subject: Origins: Napoleon's Dream
Any other versions required please. It appears to be a unique piece in the Hammond-Gardiner Collection at VWML Online. It is definitely not the better known 'A Dream of Napoleon' Roud 1538. We have given it the new number of 29548. It doesn't appear among the Napoleon ballads on the Bodleian. It is a bit garbled but possible to decipher. Here's what Isaac Hobbs sang and Gardiner noted, the first verse of 3.

My heart is sore lamenting and falling on the ground,
All in our situation all English we'll pull down,
We were forced for to surrender for the want of powder and ball
Saying Bonaparte for nothing in the honour of Nelson call.

Any info appreciated.
Thanks for looking.