Bad Luck to This Marching

DESCRIPTION: "Bad luck to this marching, pileclaying and starching, How neat one must be to be killed by the French! I'm sick of parading Through wet and cold wading...." The soldier's life is hard; food is bad or missing; they don't get paid. He wishes he were home
AUTHOR: Charles Lever (1806-1872) (source: Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
EARLIEST DATE: 1897 (_Charles O'Malley_)
KEYWORDS: soldier hardtimes food
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, pp. 177-178, "Bad luck to this marching" (1 fragment)
Hylands-Mammoth-Hibernian-Songster, p. 134, "Bad Luck to This Marching" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Charles Lever ("Edited by his Daughter"), _Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon II_ (Downey and Co., Limited, London, 1897; available on Google Books), pp. 220-221, "Bad Luck to This Marching" (1 text)
Kathleen Hoagland, editor, One Thousand Years of Irish Poetry (New York, 1947), pp. 440-441, "Bad Luck to This Marching"
Roud #37296
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Paddy O'Carroll" (tune, according to Lever)
NOTES [34 words]: The first volume of Charles O'Malley was published in 1841. I have not located the date of the first edition of volume II, in which Charles Lever first published this poem, but it can't be much after. - RBW
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File: HMHS134A

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