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Something for the weekend. From the Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. The song a Modern Major General was intended as a lampoon of Queen Victoria’s best general Garnet Wolseley. Wolseley found the song amusing and would often sing it for friends.
Thanks again for the good music!
Catchy tune. It’s been awhile since I heard this particular song. Thanks for sharing this humorous video!
Hehe, I grew up on this music…. Some of my favorite memories are the quarterly trips to the “big city” (Namath Falls) to stock up on four+ months worth of non-perishables, with a Gilbert and Sullivan tape as the “sing along” music— well, that and a bunch of old western, but I loved G&S because they weren’t sad. Even the one about the little Tom Tit bird….