Armored Cruiser Squadron, The

DESCRIPTION: "Away, away, with sword and drum, Here we come, full of rum, Looking for someone to put on the bum, the Armored cruiser squadron."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1929 (Niles/Moore-SongsMyMotherNeverTaughtMe)
KEYWORDS: navy nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Niles/Moore-SongsMyMotherNeverTaughtMe, pp. 123-124, "The Armored Cruised Squadron" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10267
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The North Atlantic Squadron" (form)
NOTES [84 words]: This song probably had a very short life. Armored cruisers didn't come into existence until well after the American Civil War, and the U. S. was slow to build a navy in that time, so it took many more years to build up a squadron. And then the Dreadnought Revolution and the battlecruiser made them obsolete; they were gone after World War One.
Roud lumps this with "The North Atlantic Squadron." They doubtless derive from a similar influence, but clearly there was at least one rewrite along the way. - RBW
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