Something for the weekend. Slattery’s Mounted Foot. The Irish have always had a talent for humorous self mockery. One of the masters of this art was Percy French who lived from 1854-1920 and wrote many humorous songs, gently poking fun at the foibles of the Irish. My favorite is Slattery’s Mounted Foot:
You’ve heard of Julius Ceasar and the great Napoleon too,
And how the Cork militia beat the Turks at Waterloo;
But there’s a page of glory that as yet remains uncut,
🙂 Mr. McClarey – How do you come up wit this stuff!? Great.
Witty and pithy – two of my favorite things!
‘Best be a coward for five minutes than a dead man all your life.’”
Sounds reasonable today–when deep thoughts don’t last Too long and “get over it” is the mantra amid the clatter of forward >>>progressive>>> motion
When i was a child, I used to listen to this song on an old gramophone at my grandfather’s weekend bach – the gramophone was a wind up one, and played old 78 discs…….I wonder who sung the song ?- must have been back in the late 40’s. Perhps I’ll google it. 🙂
It appears that what I listened to was the song , sung by by Frank Crumit -couldn’t find a link to the song.