by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
We be the King's men, hale and hearty
Language: English
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 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 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!
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Authorship:
- by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), no title, appears in The Dynasts, Act I, Scene 1, first published 1903 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ian Alfred Copley (b. 1926), "The king's men", published 1962 [ unison (treble) voices with optional second part and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877 - 1946), "Song of the king's men", published 1938 [ TTBB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harvey Bartlett Gaul (1881 - 1945), "Buonaparty", published 1921 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "The king's men", published 1933 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ethel Florence Lindesay Robertson, née Richardson (1870 - 1946), as Henry Handel Richardson, "The King's Men" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hilda May Sarson (1901? - 1958), "The king's men", published 1934 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Buonaparty", 1908, published 1909 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Philip George Wilkinson (b. 1929), "The king's men", published 1956 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-17
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Word count: 124