[Magdalen] trivia

[Marion Thompson]

I had to sing it to myself at this end to get the words right. :-)  Kids 
nowadays don't learn stuff like this, which is a pity because such 
things learned hands-on, so to speak, at a tender age persist for a 
lifetime.

You never know your luck.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 8/25/2016 10:33 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>>>> Ah, back in the good old days when the sun had not yet set on the
> British Empire and much of the world map (not the USA, of course) was
> pink.  In Grade One, with the pull-down world map in front of the
> blackboard, I stood next to my desk in the one-room school house and
> sang 'The British Grenadiers'.  "Some talk of Alexander, And some of
> Hercules, Of Hector and Lysander, And such great men as these.  But of
> all the world's great heroes There's none that can compare, with a
> tow-row-row-row-row-row-row-row-row, The Britsh Grenadiers."<<<
>
> One of these days you must give me a call so I can hear you sing that to me personally!
>