Searching for a subject.

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This last week or so,

I have been stuck for a subject to write about.

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So I went digging through my piles and

heaps of sheet music for ideas.

I found this one.

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.....but I expect I moaned about fireworks

upsetting animals last year, and the year before.

And, as last year, and the year before,

I have been making Tomato soup.

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Hey Tom, I think we're in the soup!

And talking of 'being in the soup',

I notice that all the european leaders are

re-arranging the deck-chairs, yet again!

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...and making plans!

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And whilst on the subject of

being in 'hot water'.

Here's a 'clean' song -

"Singing in the Bathtub".

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And would you believe it,

here's a lady who takes her hen

into her bath with her!

Looks more like a cock bird to me.

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A soapy cock.

And this chap, has got one up on

the old rubber duck he had as a kid!

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A soapy duck.

And, still on the subject of soap,

I found this.....

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And this......

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Every bloody week I lose a sock!

And so after all this searching,

for something to write about,

I found these.

And I remembered.

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Where are the boys of the old Brigade,

Who fought for us side by side?

Shoulder to shoulder, and blade by blade,

Fought till they fell and died!

Who so ready and undismayed?

Who so merry and true?

Where are the boys of the old Brigade?

Where are the lads we knew?

Over the sea far away they lie,

Far from the land of their love;

Nations alter, the years go by,

But Heav’n is still Heav’n above,

Not in the Abbey proudly laid

Find they a place or part;

The gallant boys of the old Brigade,

They sleep in old England’s heart.

Words..... F. E. Weatherly (1848-1929)

The words are from a song "The Old Brigade".

I have the music, but only in a book of 'Parlour Songs'.

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One of my interests,

is digging out these old songs and tunes.....

....many of course, long forgotten.

But let us not ever forget the many who died

fighting for our freedom.

We will remember them.

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