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shelomit-bat-dvorah:
foundingfatherfest:
How Stands the Glass Around (or General Wolfe’s Song)
Another version of this song. It’s the one Hamilton supposedly sang at the Independence Day dinner with the Society of Cincinnati not long before the duel.
Feel free to imagine that while listening for many tears.
Yo, @vfreie, do you know this one? The reason why “Why, Soldiers, Why?” is sometimes called “General Wolfe’s Song” is that Wolfe purportedly sang it the night before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. So, if you’re planning on singing this shortly before you’re planning to be shot at, restrain yourselves; it’s a lovely song, but it has a suspiciously high mortality rate.
My favorite performance by The Druids here.
My dad had that Druids record on vinyl. He loaned it to someone and never got it back, but he still had a tape of it and I listened to it until it nearly wore out. That song is not the only totally awesome thing on there.
I sing this song as a lullaby to babies sometimes. My other favorite Inappropriate Lullaby is from this album too, the one about sandy Abu Klea. It is a mess of British imperialism but contains the incomparable line “He died as he had often wished, his saber in his hand.”
shelomit-bat-dvorah:
foundingfatherfest:
How Stands the Glass Around (or General Wolfe’s Song)
Another version of this song. It’s the one Hamilton supposedly sang at the Independence Day dinner with the Society of Cincinnati not long before the duel.
Feel free to imagine that while listening for many tears.
Yo, @vfreie, do you know this one? The reason why “Why, Soldiers, Why?” is sometimes called “General Wolfe’s Song” is that Wolfe purportedly sang it the night before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. So, if you’re planning on singing this shortly before you’re planning to be shot at, restrain yourselves; it’s a lovely song, but it has a suspiciously high mortality rate.
My favorite performance by The Druids here.
My dad had that Druids record on vinyl. He loaned it to someone and never got it back, but he still had a tape of it and I listened to it until it nearly wore out. That song is not the only totally awesome thing on there.
I sing this song as a lullaby to babies sometimes. My other favorite Inappropriate Lullaby is from this album too, the one about sandy Abu Klea. It is a mess of British imperialism but contains the incomparable line “He died as he had often wished, his saber in his hand.”
