Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here
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Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here is an American popular song first published in 1917. The lyrics, written by D. A. Esrom (pseudonym of Theodora Morse) to a tune composed by Arthur Sullivan for the 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance,[1] are:
Hail, hail, the gang's all here.
What the heck do we care,
What the heck do we care?
Hail, hail, the gang's all here.
What the heck do we care now?
The melody was originally part of "With Cat-Like Tread" in Act II of Pirates and echoes the
’s original lyrics set by Sullivan to the tune are:Come, friends, who plough the sea.
Truce to navigation,
Take another station.
Let's vary piracy
With a little burglary
It appears that the lyric "Hail, hail, the gang's all here" had unofficially been added to Sullivan's melody many years before 1917. It was referenced in American newspapers as a familiar song as early as 1898, sung at political and other gatherings.
By the 1950s, the chorus of the song (with revised lyrics) had become popular in Irish and Scottish communities as being part of "
External resources
References
- OCLC 60677181. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-307-75633-6.
- ISBN 978-0-19-979602-1. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
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- ^ "Keep Griffin Under Cover". Newspapers.com. The St. Paul Globe (Minnesota). 16 April 1898. p. 2. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Riotous Commoners: Scenes of Disorder in the Lower Chamber". Newspapers.com. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1 April 1898. p. 2. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1, 1898, p. 2
- ^ "Delaware Deadlock Bars Election of U.S. Senators". Newspapers.com. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 8 March 1901. p. 2. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Wild Times in Dover," Batavia (NY) Spirit of the Times, March 1901
- ^ "Alabama Jubilee (Lyrics)". International Lyrics Playground. lyricsplayground.com. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ "Ohio State fight song Lyrics". Lyrics on Demand. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "Songs - History of Hail Hail and The Celtic Song". The Celtic Wiki (Celtic Football Club). Retrieved 23 October 2018.