[Magdalen] trivia

[Jay Weigel]

I learned that one from my dad. We could probably do a fine duet!


On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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!
>>
>>
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