[Dixielandjazz] No dirge for England--not quite yet

[Don Ingle]

Gee  --  Don't hold back, Charlie. Tell him how you really feel.( :>)
Don Ingle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Hooks" <charliehooks@earthlink.net>
To: <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] No dirge for England--not quite yet


> on 5/30/02 10:54 AM, Jazzjerry@aol.com at Jazzjerry@aol.com wrote:
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> > What a strange outburst coming from a citizen of a country largely
populated
> > by 'immigrants' who have managed in the last few centuries to decimate
the
> > indigenous population.
> >
> > An interesting thread indeed but bugger all to do with jazz.
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> Absolutely nothing to do with jazz!  DOESN'T BELONG ON THE LIST!  HOW DID
> THE TOPIC EVER GET ONTO THE LIST?
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> Think it began with someone's labelling "God Save the Queen" as a dirge.
>
> You play it that way?  You got it that way.  That's you, Jerry, and your
> opinion is fairly your own.  I don't hear it that way.
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> I hear it as a Grand March in 3/4 time. Heads high, calmly and inevitably
> moving forward into the future, British banners aloft, those idiotic
British
> military shorts looking somehow not at all idiotic, with maybe some
skirling
> pipes behind.  Perhaps it is your own viewpoint than has made of it a
> dirge--for the funeral of the Empire.
>
> My feeling goes back and back, before that unpleasantness known as the
> American Revolution in 1776, which would change the entire history of the
> world in the 20th century  Had we (you and I, Jerry) been, as we should
have
> been, fellow citizens with Canadians in the "Commonwealth of North
America,"
> WWI might have been avoided, and thus WWII.  Kaiser Bill might well have
> reconsidered, had he but known that The Commonwealth of North America's
> entire industrial might would most certainly fall on him in war.  (Barbara
> Tuchman totally agrees, I most pleasantly discovered  I'm sure you know
> Barbara, don't you?)
>
> So maybe I'm not speaking to the British of today, but only to those of
> yesteryear, to men who no longer exist: to men who would fight on the
> landing grounds, on the beaches, who would never surrender...."  Those men
> must have been terribly mistaken!
>
> Nowdays we would sit down and talk with Hitler's hordes: we would speak of
> our mutual problems, hug each other, seek to understand each other, and
> Oprah would Em-Cee.  And the "musically challenged members of your
> population could warble on suitably patriotic occasions."
>
> Love it!  They could, indeed!
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