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Buonaparty
English source:
Thomas Hardy
We be the King's men, hale and hearty,
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
If he won't sail, lest the wind should blow,
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
We be the King's men, hale and hearty,
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
If he be sea-sick, says "No, no!"
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
We be the King's men, hale and hearty,
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
Never mind, mates, we'll be merry though
We may have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We may have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We may have marched for nothing, O!
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
If he won't sail, lest the wind should blow,
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
We be the King's men, hale and hearty,
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
If he be sea-sick, says "No, no!"
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
We be the King's men, hale and hearty,
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
Never mind, mates, we'll be merry though
We may have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We may have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol! Right fol-lol!
We may have marched for nothing, O!
Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. Over sixty years, he composed operas, ballets, chamber music, vocal pieces and orchestral compositions. He was strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song. Information from Wikipedia.…
Poet
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly…