I did have this on my longlist, but it didn't make the final cut. Partly because, as you say, it's a bit confusing what it's really about, but mainly because I've aways found it deeply irritating!
"Stop the cavalry" by Jona Lewie perhaps? A surprise Christmas hit in 1980 and now regularly wheeled out as a jolly Christmas tune on the radio. It is a bit confused as it mentions some more modern things like nuclear fall-out but mostly it does seem to be about WW1 - there was not a lot of cavalry going on in WW2, the Tsar was definitely not WW2, and Churchill was prominent in WW1 though in different ways from WW2. I think it aims to be a sort of universal anti-war song so its not guilty of romanticising the war except that it has such a jaunty tune that it might be accused or making light of it?
Thanks for the suggestion Brendan.
I did have this on my longlist, but it didn't make the final cut. Partly because, as you say, it's a bit confusing what it's really about, but mainly because I've aways found it deeply irritating!
"Stop the cavalry" by Jona Lewie perhaps? A surprise Christmas hit in 1980 and now regularly wheeled out as a jolly Christmas tune on the radio. It is a bit confused as it mentions some more modern things like nuclear fall-out but mostly it does seem to be about WW1 - there was not a lot of cavalry going on in WW2, the Tsar was definitely not WW2, and Churchill was prominent in WW1 though in different ways from WW2. I think it aims to be a sort of universal anti-war song so its not guilty of romanticising the war except that it has such a jaunty tune that it might be accused or making light of it?