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Thread #58110   Message #918760
Posted By: clueless don
26-Mar-03 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: The British Grenadiers
Subject: RE: The British Grenadiers
Never one to shy away from thread creep ...

Whenever I hear "British Grenadiers", I automatically say to myself "Oh, that's ' 'cause I got me a pretty woman's love'." This is a reference to a song called "Wringle, Wrangle" that appeared in a 50s Walt Disney movie called "Westward Ho the Wagons", starring Fess Parker among others. The melodies are not exactly the same, but one of the lines of "Wringle, Wrangle" ends (as I recall) with the words "'cause I got me a pretty woman's love", sung to virtually the same tune as the last few bars of the "A" part of "British Grenadiers."

I wonder if anyone else remembers the song, and has noticed the similarity. This would have been one of the very first movies I ever saw.