|
21 Oct 98 - 08:52 AM (#42647) Subject: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Jennifer Burdoo Looking for two songs now. Assuming you know MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA by Henry C. Work, there are two other songs I know of that use the same tune, both Irish, and both of which I want the lyrics to because I can not understand the Irish brogue.
1. Come in -- Done by the Irish Rovers on LP 'The Unicorn'. Some lyrics:
2. Victoria -- Two or three Irish sisters on some CD anthology series. Jennifer |
|
21 Oct 98 - 10:11 PM (#42746) Subject: Lyr Add: HURRAY, MY FATHER'S GONNA BE HUNG^^ From: BSeed HURRAY, MY FATHER'S GONNA BE HUNG Hurray, hurray, my father's gonna be hung! Hurray, hurray, that dirty drunken bum: He was very mean to me when I was very young, Hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray they're hanging Father. Hurray, hurray, my mother's gonna be shot! Hurray, hurray, that dirty drunken sot. She was very mean to me when I was just a tot, Hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray, they're shooting Mother. Hurray, hurray, my sister's gonna be hurt! Hurray, hurray, that nasty old pervert. She was very free with me when I was just a squirt, Hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray, they're hurting Sister. Hurray, hurray, my brother's gonna be destroyed! Hurray, hurray, that dirty little boy. He always used to try on me the things he read in Freud, Hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray, hurray, they're destroying Brother. I ran across this in that old yellow book, whatever it's name is, published by "The American Outing Association" or something like that. --seed ^^ Click for another transcription of this song |
|
22 Oct 98 - 06:33 AM (#42789) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Susan of DT Jennifer - I have that record and will listen to it if no one posts it first. The chorus on come in, come in ends with "for I'm an Irishman" as I (possibly incorrectly) remember. There is something else in the first part of the "gibberish" |
|
22 Oct 98 - 06:50 AM (#42790) Subject: Lyr Add: IN THE GOLDEN GULLIES OF THE PALMER^^ From: Helen Jennifer, Just out of interest, here is an Australian song to the tune of Marching through Georgia.
Helen
CHORUS: Hurrah, hurrah, we'll sound the jubilee,
Kick at troubles when they come boys, the motto be for all,
Then sound the chorus once again and give it with a roar,
|
|
22 Oct 98 - 11:00 AM (#42801) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Jerry I remember a little bit of a 19th century fraternity song to this tune. It was sung at Bowdoin College in the State of Maine. All I have in my head is the chorus: Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah for old Phi Chi [pronounced Kai]/ Hurrah, hurrah, and may she never die/ When pluck beats luck and Prex is stuck and profs are high and dry/ Phi Chi is in her ancient glory. The lyrics describe the hazing rituals that pledges had to endure to become brothers. Jerry |
|
24 Oct 98 - 02:11 PM (#43086) Subject: Lyr Add: COME IN, COME IN From: Susan of DT Here is Come In:
COME IN, COME IN
Come in, come in, we'll do the best we can Come in, come in, bring the whole bloody clan Take it slow and easy and I'll shake you by the hand Set you down, I'll treat you decent, I'm an Irishman.
I have traveled East, I've traveled West
When I am gone some other place, my memory growing dim @drink
Also, I searched the database for songs to Marching Thru Georgia by |
|
12 Nov 98 - 03:06 PM (#45134) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Jennifer Burdoo Found more about "Victoria" -- It's by the Grehan Sisters and can be found on a 4-cd compilation -- Irish Folk Favourites, if anyone who has that can transcribe it better than me. As I recall, it's the first song on the third cd. Help! Jennifer |
|
12 Nov 98 - 09:48 PM (#45178) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Guy Wolff Hi, This is from Connecticut square danceing and not what your after but just another use of the song. It was the most popular dance tune in these parts for along time and Tude Tanguay's signiture piece Oh the first old lady prominade the inside of the ring .When you get back home again you give that man a swing. Form a circle to the right with the ladies in the lead ....As we go marching thruogh Gorgia, Haray haray go back the other way ,Haray ,haray your going the wrong way when you get back home again you give that girl a swing ...As we go marching thruogh Geogia........... Sorry Atlanta........ |
|
17 Nov 98 - 05:18 AM (#45775) Subject: Lyr Add: PAINT 'ER RED! (Ralph Chaplin) From: Jon Bartlett I'm astonished! A million Mudcatters and no Wobs?
PAINT 'ER RED!
Come with us you workingmen and join the rebel band
CHORUS: Hurrah! hurrah! we're gonna paint 'er red!
In factory and field and mine we gather in our might
Come on you fellows, get in line, we'll fill the boss with fears
"Slaves", they call us, "working plugs", inferior by birth
We hate their rotten system more than any mortals do - by Ralph Chaplin, 1914 (he made Solidarity Forever, too). There was also another (tamer) song to the tune, which appeared regularly in each edition of the Little Red Songbook, called "One Big Industrial Union", made by G.C. Allen, but the Chap[lin version, though I think never published in the songbook, was the more popular. It was used by the prosection in several Wobbly sedition trials to prove the IWW's revolutionary intent. Jon the offsider |
|
02 Jun 02 - 11:53 PM (#721946) Subject: Lyr Add: VICTORIA (Brian O'Higgins) From: Jim Dixon Lyrics opied from http://celtic-lyrics.com/lyrics.php?ID=96
^^VICTORIA
The lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown,
Victoria, they're coming for you soon,
A gas main burst in Belfast on the eve of Poppy Day,
Georgie lost the seat he had; king Billy lost his head;
Nelson's weather eye, they say, is looking out for squalls; See also this thread (click) |
|
03 Jun 02 - 12:52 AM (#721968) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: JennieG This tune was used as the school song at the high school my sons attended - the chorus went something like: Hurrah, hurrah, for the plough and the harrow and the hoe Hurrah, hurrah, for the wheat in the waving row..... I don't know who the perpetrator was, it was a long time before my boys went there. But is is a school that specialises in agricultural subjects, which may make the choice of words clearer! Neither of my sons became farmers either - one is studying music (jazz drumming) after some years working in the IT field, the other is a gymnastics teacher. Cheers JennieG |
|
03 Jun 02 - 01:47 AM (#721984) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: masato sakurai The Bodleian Library has a song to the tune of "Marching Through Georgia", with MIDI (Click here).
A Marching Song For Land Reformers [c. 1900] (Johnson Ballads 1295b)
The Land Song [c. 1910] (Johnson Ballads 1294)
"These two sheets, from similar sources, illustrate the use of well-known tunes for political ends. The second of them is the only example in the collections of the use of sol-fa rather than staff notation." ~Masato |
|
03 Jun 02 - 01:52 AM (#721986) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Liz the Squeak There is a pretty rousing hymn to this tune too, regretably I can't find the book, but the first line goes 'Come and see the shining hope that Christ's apostles saw' and the chorus goes something like 'He lives, He lives! Christ lives .......' I'll try and find it for you all if you want. LTS |
|
03 Jun 02 - 05:20 AM (#722018) Subject: ADD: VICTORIA (Brian Na Barbar) From: Snuffy I've had the original Grehan Sisters LP "On the Galtymore Mountains" (Transatlantic TRA160) (autographed by all three) since the 60's. Victoria is the first track, and like many others, it is often very difficult to decipher what they are singing. There are minor differences from Jim's posting, perhaps the biggest being "they're coming down for you, Victoria" in the chorus and verses 1 & 3. The Grehans credit the composer as Brian Na Barbar, rather than O'Higgins. Are they one and the same? The sleeve-notes give some background (but have been proved to be inaccurate for at least one other track): The decapitation of King Billy's statue in College Green, Dublin, the blowing up of the Equestrian Statue of King George II in St. Stephen's Green and the removal by violent action of the Lion and Unicorn emblem near Dublin Castle on the morning of Poppy Day 1937, set loyal people saying that means should be taken to protect the ugly and aggressive looking image of the Queen Victoria that stands on Leinster Lawn. VICTORIA (Brian Na Barbar) The lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown, When up spoke Irish Cheddar1 and they both came tumbling down The second George departed too, from Stephen's Green in town, But they're coming down for you, Victoria! CHORUS:
A gas main2 burst in Belfast on the eve of Poppy Day, |
|
03 Jun 02 - 08:38 AM (#722048) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: John MacKenzie What about The Glasgow Eskimos, written in praise of the foolhardy idealists who tried to stop the first convoy of US warships arriving at the Holy Loch on the Clyde, using only kayaks. Up the Clyde came Lannan[?]in his super duper yank We fairly cramped his smile me boys when we dropped him in the stank* Up to your knees in sludge and sewage fairly cramps your style For we are the Glasgow eskimos. Hurrah hurrah we are the eskimos Hurrah hurrah the Glasgow eskimos We,ll gaff that nyaff**called Lannan, and we'll spear him where he blows. We are the Glasgow eskimos. Don't remember any more, but I'm sure ljc will know some of this one. *stank= drain ** nyaff=creep/plonker Failte....Giok |
|
03 Jun 02 - 11:11 AM (#722092) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Rich_and_Dee Billy Bragg recorded "There is Power in a Union" "There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hands of the worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand. There is power in a union" Don't have the rest of the lyric handy. Pretty rousing stuff. Rich |
|
03 Jun 02 - 12:34 PM (#722135) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Mark Ross POWER IN THE UNION was written to the tune of ARE YOU WASHED IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB not MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA. Joe Hill wrote PITU around 1912. Mark Ross |
|
03 Jun 02 - 01:11 PM (#722150) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Rich_and_Dee Hi Mark, I certainly defer. On Billy Bragg's "Talking with the Taxman about Poetry" album, he claims credit for writing the lyrics and says the tune is Traditional. When I played the song for my wife, she said the tune was Marching through Georgia. I wonder if we're referring to the same song? Regards, Rich |
|
03 Jun 02 - 01:41 PM (#722169) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Mark Ross I haven't heard that album. Joe Hill wrote a song, which can be found in the IWW Songbook SONGS TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT called POWER IN THE UNION;
|
|
03 Jun 02 - 01:45 PM (#722171) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Mark Ross I haven't heard that album. Joe Hill wrote a song, which can be found in the IWW Songbook SONGS TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCONTENT called POWER IN THE UNION; There is Power(there is power) In a band of working folk When they stand, hand in hand, That's a power(that's a power) That will rule in every land One Industrial Union Grand. Actually it's to an old Baptist hymn THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD. Mark Ross |
|
03 Jun 02 - 02:11 PM (#722192) Subject: Lyr Add: GLESCA ESKIMOS From: Kenny B (inactive) A little bit of folklore background Capt Lanin of the USS ? called the group of protesters on the pier at the Holy Loch a "Bunch of Eskimos " because they were all wearing Parkas. He was subsequently assaulted and knocked into the gutter while off duty in Sauchihall St in Glasgow. I think a big boy did it and ran away?
GLESCA ESKIMOS
|
|
03 Jun 02 - 03:15 PM (#722229) Subject: Lyr Add: THERE IS POWER IN A UNION (Billy Bragg) From: Rich_and_Dee Hi, Here's the Billy Bragg song I referenced. It's interesting in the folk tradition how artists borrow song titles, even when they don't borrow the actual lyrics. THERE IS POWER IN A UNION (Billy Bragg) There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hand of the worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a Union Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud War has always been the bosses way, sir The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands There is power in a Union Now I long for the morning that they realise Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us? Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone? What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child There is power in a Union The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands There is power in a Union |
|
04 Jun 02 - 11:28 AM (#722812) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: masato sakurai There're seven campaign songs whose tune is "Marching Through Georgia" in Irwin Silber's Songs America Voted By (Stackpole Books, 1971):
1. "March of United Labor" (words: George Campbell)
Three songs in Richard E. Lingenfelter & Richard A. Dwyer, Songs of the American West (University of California Press, 1968):
8. "All Are Talking of Utah" (words: "Ieuan")
Thirteen songs in Philip S. Foner, American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century (University of Illinois Press, 1975):
11. "Labor Song" (words: John Siney) ~Masato
|
|
04 Jun 02 - 11:51 AM (#722818) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: masato sakurai 21. "The Land Song" is the one at the Bodleian Library linked to above. ~Masato |
|
04 Jun 02 - 12:10 PM (#722836) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) From "Mormon Songs From The Rocky Mountains, ed. Thomas E. Cheney: The Story of Mormonism All Are Talking of Utah (mentioned above) Marching to Dixie |
|
30 Sep 04 - 10:50 PM (#1285523) Subject: Hurlstone Agricultural High School-school song From: GUEST,mykey_au@yahoo.com.au I went to that high school Hurlstone Agricultural High School where the school song was to the tune of marching through george though at the time I always thought it was to the tune of the Land Song. The school is in Glenfield a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales Australia. I remember it well because I was in the first year of high school (year 7) when our music teacher Mr Wood "updated" the song and I suggested to him some of the changes to the wording of the first verse (or so I like to think ... memory is a strange phenomenen!) Current School Song Come gather round Hurlstonians And sing with all your heart. It's here we learn about life's ways And how to play our part. It's here we learn about the land That gave us all your start. We are glad that we belong to Hurlstone. CHORUS: Hurrah, hurrah for the plough and the harrow and the hoe. Hurrah, hurrah for the wheat in the waving row. And when we're out upon our own The good results will show What we have learned at dear old Hurlstone. Now you should see our sporting teams When they achieve their goals. They try their best and tear it in With all their hearts and souls. While on the field the other side Lie round in countless shoals When the blue, red and gold play up for Hurlstone. CHORUS And here's to those who've gone before To fortune and to fame, All fiercely proud Hurlstonians Who've won for us a name And in the years that are to come, We hope to do the same, For the honour of our great school, Hurlstone. CHORUS Original School Song The School Anthem reproduced below was first written in 1912 by an old boy, Gerald Digby. Several alterations were made in 1918 and the last stanza was added. The song which follows the air of 'Marching Through Georgia,' is sung at Thursday morning Assembly. Come, gather round, ye Hurlstone lads And sing with might and main, Tis here we learn our dairy work And how to sow the grain. Tis here we learn our orchard work, From Taylor's mighty brain, 'Neath the eye of Lugmuir, boss of Hurlstone. CHORUS: Hurrah, hurrah for the plough and the harrow and the hoe. Hurrah, hurrah for the wheat in the waving row. And when we're out upon our own The good results will show What we have learned at dear old Hurlstone. We've soldered in the plumber's shop, And shaped the sheets of tin. We've hammered nails and blunted planes 'Neath skilful craftsman Pinn; And often after 'ragging,' the office we've been in, So well known to all of us at Hurlstone. CHORUS You ought to see our football team, When they start kicking goals They score the tries and tear it in, With all their hearts and souls; While on the field the other side, Lie 'Dead' in countless shoals. Wen the Bland and Gold play up for Hurlstone CHORUS We've sought the mighty liver fluke, And learned about it ways, And how it is and why it is Merino wool it pays, And paced with and of microscope, The fierce Amoeba's gaze, In the modern science room at Hurlstone CHORUS And here's to those who've gone before, To fortune and to fame, old boys in far Gallipoli, Who made for us a name, And in the years that are to come We hope to do the same, for the honour of The dear old school Hurlstone. CHORUS |
|
01 Oct 04 - 01:40 AM (#1285656) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: JennieG GUEST mykey, when were you at Hurlstone? I believe they will be celebrating their centenery in a few years. Cheers JennieG - mother of 2 ex-Hurlstonians |
|
01 Oct 04 - 05:25 PM (#1286395) Subject: Lyr Add: THEY DON'T WANT TAE KNOW (Jim McLean) From: Susanne (skw) There's another song from Scotland to the same tune, written by - you guessed it - Jim McLean and dealing with sectarianism in Glasgow: THEY DON'T WANT TAE KNOW (Jim McLean) Chorus: Hello, hello, we're orange and we're green Hello, hello, we toast the pope and queen We argue about fitba' and we're living in a dream And we don't want to know, no we don't, no we don't We don't want to know, no we don't Your pal is called Macdonald and he hates the Campbell clan He talks about a massacre, and him an Orangeman But tell him that King Billy signed the dirty stinking plan He'll no want to know, no he'll no, no he'll no He'll no want to know, no he'll no Your other pal's a Celtic fan and he comes frae Polmadie He waves the Irish banner just because he is RC But tell him that Saint Patrick was a Scotsman and you'll see He'll no want to know, no he'll no, no he'll no He'll no want to know, no he'll no Repeat 1 There's some folks sing The Soldier's Song and some God Save the Queen There's some ? the royal blue and some the emerald green Instead of fightin' for their rights they fight aboot Jock Stein And they don't want to know, no they don't, no they don't They don't want to know, no they don't So if you follow Rangers or you are a Celtic fan Don't belt the bloke beside you 'cos' your team lost 7:1 Remember that he's just like you - a Scottish workingman He'll no want to know, no he'll no, no he'll no He'll no want to know, no he'll no Repeat 1 And the Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland used the tune, too: THE LONG MARCH TO DERRY (Anon?) Chorus: Hurrah, hurrah, we proudly march along Hurrah, hurrah, we sing our marching song The battle cry of liberty went ringing loud and clear All on the long march to Derry 'Twas on the first day of the year in nineteen sixty-nine We gathered at the city hall, the weather being fine With McCann in first to lead us, Michael Farrell in the van Off on the long march to Derry As we approached to Antrim town the bridge we found was blocked There stood a certain major with a feather in his hat No Fenian folk will e'er pollute this sacred ground we hold We'll soon stop your long march to Derry Now Toomebridge town was good we found, the people stood and cheered And everyone supported us wherever we appeared We crossed the bridge where McCorley died with our banners flying high Off on the long road to Derry 'Twas in Dungiven Farrell stood and told the watching crowd We're marching for our civil rights, we're marching and we're proud And every man and woman here regardless of its creed Should join in the long march to Derry They ambushed us at Irish Street(?) and at Burntollet too And the air was thick with stones and bricks and the missiles fiercely flew But we got up and struggled on though battered black and blue To finish the long march to Derry Well now the march is over we can lay our banners down For the world has seen what Ulster's like while loyal to the crown And generations yet unborn will live to toast the boys Who went on the long march to Derry I got this off an album by 'Owen McDonagh and the Bogside Men' called 'Songs of Civil Rights' and made some time in the early Seventies, but there wasn't much info on the sleeve so I've no idea who wrote this and the other songs. If anyone happens to have access to this album, would you mind PMing me, please? |
|
01 Oct 04 - 06:04 PM (#1286428) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: English Jon No one seems to have mentioned: Hello, hello, we are King Billy's boys Hello, hello, we are King Billy's boys Up to our necks in Fenian blood, surrender or you'll die We all follow King William. Or indeed the modification into a Luton Town Football Song Hello, hello, we are the Luton boys Hello, hello, we are the Luton boys Up to our necks in Watford blood, surrender or you'll die We all follow the Luton Jon |
|
02 Oct 04 - 09:57 AM (#1286823) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Sandra in Sydney another Australian song using this tune - by singer/songwriter John Dengate, 'My tongue goes bumbling through Georgia', it's about Australians who adopt American accents to sing, and is not complimentary to these performers I don't have the words but I'll try to get them, or maybe even transcribe them this weekend. sandra |
|
02 Oct 04 - 11:07 AM (#1286856) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: GUEST,Flash Company For some reason my cookie has vanished! I recall a version from somewhere about a guy with too many girl friends which had achorus of 'Put on, put on, your little old running shoes' But I can't remember anything else about it! FC |
|
05 Mar 07 - 10:15 AM (#1986902) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Scrump Reviving this thread that I stumbled across during a search. Reproducing the lyrics posted upthread by Snuffy: VICTORIA (Brian Na Barbar) The lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown, When up spoke Irish Cheddar1 and they both came tumbling down The second George departed too, from Stephen's Green in town, But they're coming down for you, Victoria! CHORUS: Victoria, they're coming for you soon, Victoria, it may be when the moon Is shining on December frosts or on the flowers of June But they're coming down for you, Victoria! A gas main2 burst in Belfast on the eve of Poppy Day, And loyal doors, and windows too, blew rapidly away. Came the dawn in Dublin, and the naughty so they say3 Sent a message from the Castle to Victoria. Georgie lost the seat he had4; king Billy lost his head; The lion lost his balance and5 the unicorn he fled, And sure as you're a humpy stumpy bumpy lump of lead They'll be coming down for you, Victoria. Nelson's weather eye, they say, was looking out for squalls; They're nervous in the Phoenix Park and round old Dublin's walls But whosoever keeps his place and whosoever falls, They've a double date with you, Victoria !!! 1. It certainly sounds like 'Irish Cheddar', but what does that mean? 2. I had always heard 'A gatling burst'. On re-listening it does 3. sound more like 'gas main', but it's impossible to be sure. 3. Who or what are 'the naughty so they say'? 4. I had always heard 'lost his seating'. Could be either 5. Sounds more like 'from' to me No-one seemed to answer these queries at the time, and I'm interested to know if anyone can answer them today (maybe a member who joined since then will know). (Sorry the format has got a bit screwed up by my cut/paste, please refer to Snuffy's posting higher up if necessary). |
|
05 Mar 07 - 10:56 AM (#1986962) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Jack Campin From a 1903 issue of "The Socialist", an Edinburgh paper of the (DeLeonist) Socialist Labour Party then edited by James Connolly: Hurrah, Hurrah! We're the fighting S.L.P. Hurrah! Hurrah! We march to liberty, To the Socialist Republic and the triumph of the free, We're marching with the working-class to victory. |
|
10 Nov 07 - 06:29 PM (#2190783) Subject: Lyr Add: A NEW SONG—UP TO DATE (V. G. Mays) From: Jim Dixon For historical interest, here's one from Spanish-American War Songs: A Complete Collection of Newspaper Verse During the Recent War with Spain, edited by Sidney A. Witherbee, 1898. I can't say I'd want to sing it, though: A NEW SONG—UP TO DATE. (V. G. Mays.) Tune—Marching Through Georgia. Play our school piano and we'll sing another song— Sing it with the spirit that is worthy of our throng— Sing it as we ought to sing it, voices good and strong— While we are shouting for Cuba. CHORUS. Hurrah! Hurrah! We're setting Cuba free. Hurrah! Hurrah, we'll make the Spaniards flee. So we'll sing the chorus here at home, while out at sea Our boys are gaining the victory. Have you read the papers? Have you heard the joyful sound? How our gunboat Nashville has a Spanish transport found. How our own "Pat" Mullen, by his cannon turned it 'round As it was steaming to Cuba. Don't forget the day on which this warfare was begun— April twenty-second, at the rising of the sun. Hardly had they 'wakened 'fore they heard report of gun, And they were turning from Cuba. Soon we've captured many steamers that belong to Spain, Pedro, Catalina, Miguel Jover, now are gain; Saturnina, Panama and Guido we'll retain While we are fighting for Cuba. Not alone their steamers but their schooners are our prey; For Mathilda, Canelita could not get away; Sofia, Candidia, Antonio will stay While we are fighting for Cuba. (April 27, 1898.) In the harbor of Manila was our first affray, And our Dewey was the victor on the first of May— While the Spanish squadron, like the old Armada lay, And we were gaining Manila. (May 3, 1898.) When in Santiago Bay, Cervera put their fleet, Hobson's sunken Merrimac them bottled up so neat, 'Til July the third, forth they filed to sure defeat That Schley's fleet gave them near Cuba. (July 6, 1898.) FINAL CHORUS: Hurrah! Hurrah! Spain's driven from the seas. Hurrah! Hurrah! She's sued for terms of peace, For we've Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, In days fourteen and a hundred. (Aug. 16, 1898.) |
|
10 Nov 07 - 08:02 PM (#2190845) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Dave Hunt Learnt from Reg Hall many years ago at Bampton. Hurrah,hurrah the good old Gravesend Mayor Hurrah, hurah,he's got lots of hair He's got whiskers on his chin, he drinks lots of beer God made the mayor for the people |
|
11 Nov 07 - 02:35 AM (#2190976) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Liz the Squeak Scrump - if you're still watching this thread - It is entirely possible that they do sing Gatling burst, a Gatling being one of the first available types of machine gun. A burst of fire from that would certainly take out a door or gate. I've heard this song sung using 'Gatling burst' and it made perfect sense to me. LTS |
|
23 Jan 11 - 04:42 PM (#3080928) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: sandinmyears "Ulster Young Militants:" |
|
23 Jan 11 - 04:56 PM (#3080944) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: MartinRyan An early posting asked: The Grehans credit the composer as Brian Na Barbar, rather than O'Higgins. Are they the same? Yes - though that should be BRIAN NA BANBAN, the pen-name of Brian O'Higgins. It means "Brian of Ireland". Regards |
|
05 Mar 12 - 12:27 PM (#3317715) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: GUEST Some time in the 1960s or early 1970s a song that was used for the anthem of rangers football club used the same tune as marching through georgia which is called we are the billy boys. i do not know who wrote this song but when the fans sing it the fans i think sing the tune of victoria or the lion and unicorn but when they sing the corries the tune is marching through georgia and that's how my mates know this song. |
|
18 Dec 19 - 11:47 AM (#4024410) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: Tuvya And the tune was called into "service" Charlie King dissected election expectations in "The Little Jewish Ladies For Buchanan" c.2000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZYStoUZxvk |
|
19 Oct 22 - 08:01 AM (#4155581) Subject: RE: March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Fallout from the wool trade searches. About 8 years after the original: “The “Orient" delivers her Carpenter's Chest to the Lammermuir" in Mid-Ocean. In 1872 the Orient was diagonally sheathed, and Captain Mitchell took command of her. In 1873 the Orient was just about to leave London for Adelaide, when old John Willis, with his frock-coat flying open and his white hat on the back of his head, came aboard and said to Captain Mitchell: “The carpenter of my Lammermuir has left his tool chest and tools behind; will you take them out to Adelaide and deliver them to him.” “No," replied Captain Mitchell, who was a skipper of the good old sort, “but I will take them and deliver I them before I reach the line." The Lammermuir had sailed some 10 days before on the 12th of September to be exact. Old John Willis immediately offered to bet Captain Mitchell £5 that he would not be as good as his word. The bet was accepted and the Orient sailed on 28th September. In 5° N. a ship was sighted ahead and overhauled. It turned out to be the Lammermuir. Signals were exchanged, and a boat put over with the chest on board, and the Lammermuir's carpenter duly received his tools as Captain Mitchell had promised. The two ships then parted company and the Orient eventually arrived at Adelaide on the 16th December, 79 days out, the Lammermuir arriving six days later. It was a great triumph, and the apprentices of the Orient composed a pumping chanty to the tune of “Marching through Georgia” to commemorate it, the first verse of which ran as follows: The Lammermuir left London, boys, A fortnight's start she'd got, She was bound to Adelaide, Her passage to be short, But the Orient overhauled her Before halfway she'd got As we were sailing to Australia. In 1879 the Orient was sold to Cox Bros., of Waterford, and she was still afloat quite recently as a coal hulk at Gibraltar.” [The Colonial Clippers, Lubbock, 1921] See Advent thread for: Round the Horn Before the Mast, Lubbock, 1902 |
