Songs Every Child Should Know - online book
The Best Songs Of All Nations For Young People With Sheet Music & Lyrics.
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144 Songs That Every Child Should Know |
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Lilliburlero |
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This song had much to do with the English revolutionary times of 1688. The words were written in ridicule of the papists, and especially of the Irish. The burden " Lero, lero, lilliburlero" probably was written about 1641. The author of the song boasted that he drove James II from the throne with l< a few verses and a tune." Laurence Sterne refers to this remarkable tune in " Tristram Shandy." Dr. Charles Mackay ascribes the extraordinary refrain " Lero," to druidical origin. He interpreted it thus : "Li! li! Beur! lear-a! Buille na la!" —"Light! light on the sea beyond the promontory! 'Tis the stroke of the morning." However the song had its origin, it had the most tremendous latter-day significance of any military nonsense song known. Perhaps only the Finnish Hymn Bjorntborgarnes March has stood for so much patriotic madness or belligerence. |
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Words by Lord Wharton. |
Music by Purcell. |
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