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