Marching Through Georgia

Marching Through Georgia
Couverture de la partition de musique de 1865 pour Marching Through Georgia.

Marching Through Georgia (Marchant à travers la Géorgie en français) est une marche écrite par Henry Clay Work en 1865, se référençant à la marche vers la mer du major-général américain William Tecumseh Sherman, marche entreprise l'année précédente.

Il était largement populaire avec d'autres vétérans de l'armée de l'Union après la guerre. Cependant, le général Sherman lui-même a dédaigné la chanson, en partie parce qu'elle a été jouée à presque chaque apparition publique à laquelle il a assistée[1]. En dehors du sud des États-Unis, il a eu une résonance universelle : Les troupes japonaises l'ont chanté alors qu'elles entraient dans le Port Arthur, les anglais l'ont chanté en Inde britannique, et elle était populaire parmi les alliés dans la seconde guerre mondiale.

Cela demeure un air populaire pour les brass band, et a prêté son air à un certain nombre d'autres chansons populaires, y compris "The Land, "Billy Boys" et "Come In, Come In". Il est aussi chanté par un carpetbagger dans Autant en emporte le vent.

George M. Cohan cita une ligne des "Hurrah! Hurrah!" dans un de ses vers de "You're a Grand Old Flag", juxtaposé à une ligne de "Dixie".

La chanson finlandaise de protestation "Laiva Toivo, Oulu" (En anglais : "The Ship Hope, Oulu") est composée de la mélodie de "Marching Through Georgia", mais avec des textes en langue finlandaise critiquant les actions du capitaine de la frégate titulaire Toivo[2].

Sommaire

Paroles

Strophe 1
Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song
Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along
Sing it as we used to sing it, 50,000 strong[3]
While we were marching through Georgia.

CRefrain
Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee ![4]
Hurrah! Hurrah! the flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia.

Strophe 2
How the darkies shouted when they heard the joyful sound
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found
How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground
While we were marching through Georgia.

Strophe 3
Yes and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears,
When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years;
Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,
While we were marching through Georgia.

Strophe 4
"Sherman's dashing Yankee boys will never make the coast!"
So the saucy rebels said and 'twas a handsome boast
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the Host
While we were marching through Georgia.

Strophe 5
So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,
Sixty miles of latitude, three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain
While we were marching through Georgia.

Adaptation irlandaise

Une version du refrain pour Come In est comme ce qui suit :

Come in, come in, I'll do the best I can
Come in, come in, bring the whole bloody clan
Take it slow and easy, and I'll shake you by the hand
Set you down, I'll treat you decent, I'm an Irishman

Références

  • Eicher, David J., The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War, Simon & Schuster, 2001, ISBN 0-684-84944-5.

Notes

  1. Site de la 5th Michigan Infantry Marching Band
  2. (fi) Yrjö Kaukiainen, Laiva Toivo, Oulu, Helsinki, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1998 (ISBN 951-749-026-0), p. 10-13 
  3. Les armées de Sherman en Géorgie sont en réalité composées de 62,000 hommes.
  4. Une allusion biblique à la liberté des esclaves. Voir Lévitique 25

Liens externes


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Contenu soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA. Source : Article Marching Through Georgia de Wikipédia en français (auteurs)

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Regardez d'autres dictionnaires:

  • Marching Through Georgia — [Marching Through Georgia] a lively US song about the violent progress of General William Tecumseh Sherman and his army through ↑Georgia during the Civil War in November 1864. The words after each verse are: ‘Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the Jubilee! …   Useful english dictionary

  • Marching Through Georgia — For the novel by S.M. Stirling, see Marching Through Georgia (novel). Cover of the 1865 sheet music to Marching Through Georgia Marching Through Georgia (sometimes spelled Marching Thru Georgia or Marching Thro Georgia) is a marching song written …   Wikipedia

  • Marching Through Georgia — a lively US song about the violent progress of General William Tecumseh Sherman and his army through Georgia during the Civil War in November 1864. The words after each verse are: ‘Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the Jubilee! Hurrah! hurrah! the flag… …   Universalium

  • Marching Through Georgia (novel) — Marching Through Georgia   …   Wikipedia

  • Marching Through Georgia (disambiguation) — Marching Through Georgia can be* Marching Through Georgia a marching song of the American Civil War * Marching Through Georgia (novel) a novel by S.M. Stirling …   Wikipedia

  • F.Y. Hedley: Marching Through Georgia — ▪ Primary Source              Marching Through Georgia is an account of Sherman s March from the standpoint of soldiers in the ranks. F.Y. Hedley, a member of the 32nd Illinois Infantry, set out to describe how the ordinary soldier lived, how he… …   Universalium

  • Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band — CollegeMarchingBandInfoBox bandname=Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band logo= school=Georgia Institute of Technology location=Atlanta, Georgia conference=ACC founded=1908 director=Andrea Strauss (Director of Bands) Chris Moore (Director of… …   Wikipedia

  • Georgia Institute of Technology — Infobox University name = Georgia Institute of Technology nickname = Yellow Jackets, Ramblin Wreck motto = Progress and Service established = October 13, 1885cite news| url=http://gtalumni.org/Publications/magazine/sum04/article1.html | title=A… …   Wikipedia

  • Georgia Tech traditions — Georgia Tech s Tech Tower Numerous Georgia Tech legends and traditions have been established since the school s opening in 1888,[1] some of which have persisted for decades. Over time, the school has grown from a trade school into a large… …   Wikipedia

  • Georgia Military College — Established 1879 Type Public Independent Junior College President Major General Peter J. Boylan …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”