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The song was originally written in English as "A Soldier's Song". It was composed "early in 1910 or late in 1909", [n 1] with words by Peadar Kearney, and music by his childhood friend and neighbour Patrick Heeney, who had collaborated on songs since 1903. [4]
Soldier, Soldier (song) Soldier, soldier won't you marry me; Soldier's Heart (song) Soldier's Joy (fiddle tune) Soldier's Last Letter; A Soldier's Rosary; Soldiers (ABBA song) Soldiers of Misfortune (song) Soldiers of the Queen (song) Song of Roland; The Song of the Marines; Song of the Women's Army Corps; Still in Saigon; Stop the Cavalry; The ...
"Onward, Christian Soldiers" is a 19th-century English hymn. The words were written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1865, and the music was composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1871. Sullivan named the tune "St Gertrude," after the wife of his friend Ernest Clay Ker Seymer, at whose country home he composed the tune.
The lyrics were written by German romantic poet Ludwig Uhland in 1809. Its immediate inspiration was the deployment of Badener troops against the Tyrolean Rebellion . In 1825, the Lieder composer Friedrich Silcher set it to music, based on the tune of a Swiss folk song , in honor of those who fell during the more recent Wars of Liberation ...
The song is anti-war but pro soldier, featuring explicit references to the Normandy invasion in World War II: "The ocean is on fire, the sky turned dark again as the boats came in / And the ...
(Roud 489), also known as "Soldier John" and "Soldier, Soldier," is an American traditional folk song. [1] Fresno State University gives the earliest collected date as 1903 in America, and it was collected many times in Tennessee and North Carolina in the early 1900s. [2] It was printed in "Games and Songs of American Children" by William Wells ...
The song was originally written as a lament from an Irish worker in London, missing his homeland. [citation needed] Unlike popular songs of previous wars (such as the Boer Wars), it did not incite soldiers to glorious deeds, instead concentrating on the longing for home (as with the period song "Keep the Home Fires Burning"). [citation needed]
Soldiers of the Queen is a song written and composed by Leslie Stuart. The song is often sung and published as "Soldiers of the King" depending on the reigning monarch at the time. The tune was originally composed by Stuart as a march celebrating the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal. The lyrics were added at a later date and the title changed.