Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Garryowen

Today and tomorrow is the 138th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.  Here's "Garryowen" in honor of Custer's troopers lost in this battle.  

Garryowen, an old Irish tune, was the regimental song of the Seventh Cavalry.  Many in that regiment were Irishmen.


6 comments:

  1. Such a spirited military air. I can see why it made the sound tracks of many Westerns.

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  2. Still reverberates

    ALOHA from Honolulu
    ComfortSpiral
    =^..^= <3

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  3. My first thought was about Garry Owens from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

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  4. Let Bacchus's sons be not dismayed......

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  5. Too bad the Indians weren't Irish.

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