About: The Kerry Recruit     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:Wikicat1915Songs, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FThe_Kerry_Recruit&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

"The Kerry Recruit" is an Irish song referring to the Crimean War. The song's lyrics are from the point of view of an Irish soldier (from County Kerry). Rumour has it, that if you were around during the playing of "The Kerry Recruit" during the Crimean War, you were to be thrown in jail. The lyrics of the song:

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • The Kerry Recruit (en)
rdfs:comment
  • "The Kerry Recruit" is an Irish song referring to the Crimean War. The song's lyrics are from the point of view of an Irish soldier (from County Kerry). Rumour has it, that if you were around during the playing of "The Kerry Recruit" during the Crimean War, you were to be thrown in jail. The lyrics of the song: (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • "The Kerry Recruit" is an Irish song referring to the Crimean War. The song's lyrics are from the point of view of an Irish soldier (from County Kerry). Rumour has it, that if you were around during the playing of "The Kerry Recruit" during the Crimean War, you were to be thrown in jail. The lyrics of the song: About four years ago I was digging the landWith me bróga on me feet and me spade in me handSays I to me self, what a pity to see,Such a fine strapping lad footing turf round TraleeCHORUSWith me too rum a na, with me too rum a na,With me too rum an urum an urum a na.Well I buttered me bróga, an' shook hands with me spade,An' away to the fair, like a dashing young bladeWhen up comes a sergeant an he asks me to 'list,Dhera, sergeant a ghrádh, stick a bob in me fist!CHORUSNow the first thing they gave me it was a red coat,With a wide strap of leather to tie round me throatThen they gave me a quare thing, I asked what was that,They told me it was a cockade for me hatCHORUSThe next thing they gave me, they called it a gun,With powder an ball an' a place for me thumb.Well first she spat fire, and then she spewed smoke,An' she gave me oul shoulders a hell of a strokeCHORUSWell the first place they sent me was down by the sea,On board of a warship bound for the CrimeaThree sticks in the middle all rowled round with sheets,Faith, she walked on the water without any feet!CHORUSWhen at Balaclava we landed quite sound,Cold, wet and hungry we lay on the groundNext morning for action the bugle did call,And we had a hot breakfast of powder and ballCHORUSWell we fought at the Alma, likewise Inkermann,But the Russians they whiled us at the RedanIn scalin' the walls there, meself lost an eye,And a big Russian bullet ran away with me thigh.CHORUSWell they brought me a doctor, he soon staunched me blood,Then they gave me an elegant leg made of wood.They gave me a medal and tenpence a day,Contented with Síle, I'll live on half pay.CHORUS (en)
gold:hypernym
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 58 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software