an English town thought the tune was appropriate to welcome southern troops in World War II
There's a picture to conjure with. Golly.
The chorus sounds tantalizingly familiar to me, but I couldn't place where or when I might have heard it. (If you didn't go listen to the brass band link from the Wikipedia article you should -- it's an old-timey sounding rendition that might approximate how it was sung when they were serenading Sherman.)
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Date: 2009-10-23 07:41 pm (UTC)There's a picture to conjure with. Golly.
The chorus sounds tantalizingly familiar to me, but I couldn't place where or when I might have heard it. (If you didn't go listen to the brass band link from the Wikipedia article you should -- it's an old-timey sounding rendition that might approximate how it was sung when they were serenading Sherman.)