Jona Lewie-Stop The Cavalry

[Ken Burch]

Run time: 02:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOe18JcatZo   Posted on YouTube: October 05, 2006 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 25, 2009 By DU Member: Ken Burch Views on DU: 440

 
Just a little reminder that

A)It's Christmas

B)The best way we can celebrate Christmas is to STOP THE FREAKING WARS!

Lyrics

Hey, Mr. Churchill comes over here
To say we're doing splendidly
But it's very cold out here in the snow
Marching to and from from the enemy
Oh, I say it's tough, I have had enough
Can you stop the cavalry?

I have had to fight, almost every night
Down throughout these centuries
That is when I say, oh yes, yet again
Can you stop the cavalry?

Mary Bradley waits at home
In the nuclear fall-out zone
Wish, I could be dancing now
In the arms of the girl I love


Dub a dub a dum dum
Dub a dub a dum
Dub a dum dum dub a dub
Dub a dub a dum

Dub a dub a dum dum
Dub a dub a dum
Dub a dum dum dub a dub
Dub a dub a dum

Wish, I was at home for Christmas


Bang, that's another bomb on another town
While Luzar and Jim have tea
If I get home, live to tell the tale
I'll run for all presidencies
If I get elected I'll stop,
I will stop the cavalry

Dub a dub a dum dum
Dub a dub a dum
Dub a dum dum dub a dub
Dub a dub a dum

Dub a dub a dum dum
Dub a dub a dum
Dub a dum dum dub a dub
Dub a dub a dum

Wish, I was at home for Christmas


Wish I could be dancing now
In the arms of the girl I love
Mary Bradley waits at home
She's been waiting two years long

Wish, I was at home for Christmas

[Ken Burch]

1. This came out in the UK in 1980.

I just discovered it this afternoon while reading a BBC web story about famous British Christmas songs of the rock era.

[Ken Burch]

2. You'd have to be really twisted to "unrec" this.

n/t.

[Rabbit.Storms]

3. never

heard it

[Ken Burch]

4. I hadn't heard it until yesterday, when I read the BBC article about it.

Then I played it over and over a few times, and it stuck with me.

Even if it wasn't well known in its day, there's still a reason to play it now.

I hope this will help spread the song.