Johston's Motor Car



He didn't quite get it back per order, but the damn thing's been found. It'll go back now, I suppose, only a little bit late.

The Nightingale song, if you know the whole thing, is the same bit as the Gentleman Soldier song from last week. Folk songs and all that.

2 comments:

raven said...

“McCarron was shot dead by the British Army a year later and, as they did at the time, the soldiers arrived to disrupt the wake and ransack the house. But when the officer looked into the coffin, he immediately called his men to order and removed them from the scene.
“The next night, he approached McCarron’s father and told him that his son had saved his life by carrying him for a mile through a battlefield in France during the First World War,” he said.


Strange and poignant.

Gringo said...

The tune for Johnson's Motor Car reminds me of Brennan on the Moor.