谁能介绍一下这首歌？It's a Long Way to Tipperary

waxini

《从海底出击》一个很搞笑的情节，德国官兵酷爱一首貌似英国皇家海军的军歌《It's a Long Way to Tipperary》
当然，歌曲的确很振奋人心。
下载在这里http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/itsalongwaytotipperary.htm



[ 本帖最后由 waxini 于 2010-3-11 21:59 编辑 ]

martinchi

我更期待这个电影。下载没种了[伤心啊] [伤心啊] [伤心啊]

oscarvonbj

这是一首一战时期脍炙人口的歌曲，价值5先令。有人开玩笑说作者不能创作出让人们传唱的广受欢迎的歌曲并随口说拿5先令来赌。作者我忘了名字，很俗的英国人的名字，懒得记了，可以GOOGEL一下。他于是就创作了这个，被朋友推广了，就红了。爱尔兰部队首先传唱，然后整个英军传唱，然后德军也很喜欢，然后俄军也很喜欢，再然后一位大歌星在电台唱了，红透了。

oscarvonbj

所以，这不是什么海军的军歌，也不是任何一国的任何军种的军歌。国内军迷有个毛病，喜欢不做系统探究就臆测并到处宣扬臆测的结论。LZ不要听信他们信口雌黄。这歌是因为曲调简单易于记忆，所以才在战争中红的。

oscarvonbj

这是我在爱尔兰文化网上找到的，地址：http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ACalend/VetsTiperary.html





It's a long way to Tipperary
by Bridget Haggerty

The Daily Mail correspondent, George Curnock, first heard the tune in Boulogne in August, 1914 - "a company of the 2nd* Battalion Connaught Rangers passed us singing, with a note of strange pathos in their rich Irish voices, a song I had never heard before…"

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go,
It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly! Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there!

One of the most popular songs among the British, German and Russian armies during World War I, it sold a million copies in 1914 and was later recorded by John McCormack. But what of its origins?

According to our research, across the water, in Oldbury near Birmingham, England, a music-hall entertainer, Jack Judge, is credited with composing the song along with Harry Williams who was a musician. While Jack had never been to Ireland, it was where his grandparents were from.

On January 30, 1912, Jack was performing at The Grand theatre, Stalybridge, Cheshire, England with his younger brother Ted Withey. After the performance, he went to a club near the theatre. It was there that someone challenged him with a bet that he could not write a new song and then perform it on stage during the next performance. The bet was for five shillings, which in those days was the price of a bottle of whiskey plus 6 dozen cigarettes. After leaving the club, Jack heard a fragment of a conversation between two men, one of whom said to the other "It's a long way to.........." in the course of giving someone directions.

He seized upon that phrase as a song-title, and then added the word "Tipperary" to it. (In some records, it supposedly started out as Connemara but we can't find any decisive corroboration). His friend, Horace Vernon, wrote down the musical notation by listening to Jack singing the song.

Jack won the bet. He sang "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" for the first time, on the stage of The Grand Theatre during the evening's performance on January 31, 1912. It quickly became a favourite, and its catchy tune soon caught the imagination of the public. Another friend of Jacks was Harry Williams. Harry and his brother kept a small country pub in Oldbury, called "The Malt Shovel". While Jack was an entertainer in the evenings, he had a daytime stall in the local fish market. Harry often lent him money when trade was poor and Jack promised in return that if he ever wrote a best-selling song, he would put Harry's name on it. Jack kept his promise and both men made a small fortune from the song's royalties.

Today, it's still sung at parties, around campfires, at St. Patrick's Day Parades and in Irish pubs from Tipperary to Timbuctu; but in recent memory, perhaps the most emotional rendition came at a very special ceremony that took place in Messines, Holland.

During the First World War, Messines was completely destroyed. For more than three months, bloody battles were fought here, in almost continuous rain, at a cost of 170,000 killed, wounded or missing.

Locally called Mesen, it was a city long before the French Revolution, but lost its title during the Dutch occupation. In 1985, the title was reinstated, thus making Messines - with less than 1,000 inhabitants and a total surface of 900 acres - the smallest city of Belgium.

History was made here; it's a region often remembered in the poem Flanders Field's. Not far away is Boesinghe, where the young Irish poet Francis Ledgewidge was killed while helping to build a road in preparation for the attack on Ypres. He's buried in the Artillery Wood Cemetary nearby.

History was again made here when the Irish State formally honored, for the first time, the quarter of a million Irish people who had served in the British Forces during the first World War. More than fifty thousand of them died.

On November 11, 1998, a monument to those Irishmen who fought and gave their lives in World War I was unveiled by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and the King and Queen of Belgium. The monument is a 110 foot Irish Round Tower made from tons of stones taken from a former workhouse in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. As part of the unveiling ceremonies, the band played It's a Long Way to Tipperary.

Before Jack died in 1938, he composed a sequel called "It's A Long Way No Longer." We have yet to find the lyrics - and we're left to wonder what he wrote. Our wish is that in those last words, he embraced the hope that all Irish soldiers could come home - whether here or in the hereafter - and find peace, at last.


IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY

Up to mighty London came an Irishman one day,
As the streets were paved with gold, sure ev'ry one was gay,
Singing songs of Piccadilly, Strand and Leicester Square,
Till Paddy got excited, then he shouted to them there:

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go,
It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly! Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there!

Paddy wrote a letter to his Irish Molly O',
Saying "Should you not receive it, write and let me know!
If I make mistakes in spelling, Molly dear", said he,
"Remember it's the pen that's bad, don't lay the blame on me".

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go,
It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly! Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there!

Molly wrote a neat reply to Irish Paddy O',
Saying "Mike Maloney wants to marry me, and so,
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly, or you'll be to blame,
For love has fairly drove me silly - hoping you're the same!"

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go,
It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye Piccadilly! Farewell Leicester Square!
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there!

Extra wartime verse

That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss!
Don't you know that over here, lad,
They like it best like this!
Hooray pour le Francais!
Farewell, Angleterre!
We didn't know the way to tickle Mary,
But we learned how, over there!


*Some records show that it was the 7th Battalion of the Connaught Rangers Regiment of the British Army. The Rangers were mostly Irishmen, and the regiment had connections with Tipperary Town.

[ 本帖最后由 oscarvonbj 于 2010-3-12 06:36 编辑 ]

gutenberg

原帖由 martinchi 于 2010-3-12 02:38 发表
我更期待这个电影。下载没种了[伤心啊] [伤心啊] [伤心啊]

这个片子我下好快3年了，留硬盘里没删，你要不要啊，哎呀我怎么给你啊

waxini

原帖由 martinchi 于 2010-3-12 02:38 发表
我更期待这个电影。下载没种了[伤心啊] [伤心啊] [伤心啊]

我看了下，速度很好啊。