Songs
The King’s Campaign (The Grand Old Duke of York)
by Dmitri Shostakovich From Six Romances on Verses by British Poets (1942) Op. 62
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Text
The King’s Campaign (The Grand Old Duke of York)
English source:
Anon.
The King of France went up the hill,
With twenty thousand men,
The King of France came down the hill,
And never went up again.
With twenty thousand men,
The King of France came down the hill,
And never went up again.
Composer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich was a Russian composer and pianist. He achieved fame in the Soviet Union, although later developed a more complex and difficult relationship with the government. As a composer, he combined a variety of different musical…
