MILITARY MUSIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 June 1923, Page 10

MILITARY MUSIC.

It is pleasant to find in a London j newspaper examples of regimental < quicksteps, wards and music both ; gall ; and wormwood would the same be to j our "down with the army pacifists, j The marching tunes of many regiments ' are county folk' songs—e.g., that of, the Lrincolnshire Regiment: —

When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire, Full well I served my master for more than seven year. Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear, Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night in the season of the year! ° Others look back to. the history of the regiment; thus the Sherwood Foresters, once the 45th Foot, have "The Young May Moon," because in the Peninsular War they marched all night by moonlight to take part in the sanguinary storming of Badajos. The Cheshire Regiment has "Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie," not out of sympathy with the Young Pretender, but in memory of their gallant stand at the battle of Meeanee in 1843 under Sir Charles Napier. Is there anything that more surely stirs the blood than military music and marching men—a Guards ■Regiment, say, to the lusty truculence of "The British Grenadiers"? Or let the tune be "The Girl I' Left Behind Me," or again "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." , No more Avar, say I; but I pity the peace-at-any-price man when the troops go marching past. By the way, a correspondent asks after the music of the "Red Flag" and of "Deutschland iiber alles." Try the music shops. Neither classic has ever oome under my eye, or shocked mv ear