Heather Frank
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A blessed Christmas.
A blessed Christmas.
Oh yes, Jupiter. That reminds me, I'm just meditating here in a certain context. It's about 1916. There's a song by the Kingston Trio called Three Jolly Coachmen.
I was actually referring to something else. There's this American novel called The Patriot Game. It's about the 1916 Easter Rising in its time of publication. There's a song by the Kingston Trio mentioned in the original book. The Kingston Trio wrote the song in the style of the Handbook of Irish Home Rule which also predates 1916. Tom Clancy's novel is about a person who is involved in the conflict. Since Tom Clancy is a republican, he phrases his novel in a Latin style, in the vein of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. You may have heard of this book. The hero is in the Marines, so he has a Latin motto. It's basically an ideological book about war and peace, they always claim that the Irish revolution is Catholic vs Protestant. Anyway, I'd compare it to maybe CS Lewis' musings on the draft in England. It's not about church and state, it's about warfare and beliefs.Oh yes, Jupiter. That reminds me, I'm just meditating here in a certain context. It's about 1916. There's a song by the Kingston Trio called Three Jolly Coachmen.
Maybe we are connected more than we think, … 1916 this song was inevitably sung in the trenches of WW1. That year one of the main battles was The Somme. My grandfather fought in that battle, as he did in most every battle in that war as a member of Canadian 27th Light Horse, mustered at Valcartier Quebec 23 September 1914. That year (1916) he fought at Ypres Salient, Mont Sorrel, and the Somme.
I have all his papers etc. including a small chunk of the Ypres bell he made into a small horseshoe lapel pin. He even brought home a small handheld bomb used by early aviators.
When you first posted this thread it made me get out all his stuff and I had been going over it the last day and a bit …
Anyways, is that what you were thinking of with regard to the song ...?
The song is older than 1916 … goes back a couple centuries …
Thanks for posting, … it caused me to remember a good man that I miss terribly …
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