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After Bok, a Show of HandsI am indebted to Troy Southgate for putting up a link to this video, Roots, by folk-rock musicians and, it seems, English cultural heroes Show of Hands ... As what, I suppose, might be described by our liberal friends - without much love - as a professional Englishman, my reaction to it was a curious mix of mild embarrassment and stubborn pride. The one was a middle-class sensibility and the other something wholly Anglo-Saxon. In fairness, this isn’t quite my usual musical stamping ground, and I’m not accustomed to hearing my own English voice shouting so unselfconsciously into the political wind (though I gather from Troy’s frequent references to such music on New Right Forum that there is a thriving sub-culture in statements of this sort). After a couple of plays stubborness got the upper hand, I’m glad to say. I was reminded of a moment towards the end of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, which I read thirty-five years ago, where the colours of the defeated French are ceremonially lowered before General Kutouzov, with all his Grand Army, a monument to stubborness, looking on. I think the real event occurred after the Battle of Maloyaroslavets. Anyway, Tolstoy has it that as the colours are lowered the company wait in silence for the words of their great chief. None, however, come. Instead he, well knowing the spirit of the common soldier, issues an almighty oath and turns his horse away. The men assembled across the hillsides hear and understand, and they respond in kind with a long and faithful roar. This crude vigour lives in our people, too. The elegant flutterings of the intellectual lepidoptera never call it forth. But music does, and it is here in this song. Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 10:49 AM in No particular place to go Comments:2
Posted by wintermute on February 18, 2007, 03:01 PM | # my reaction to it was a curious mix of mild embarrassment and stubborn pride. Between mild embarrassment and stubborn pride seems just the right place for an Englishman, GW. Sort of how most people function best between 65 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit. 3
Posted by W.LindsayWheeler on February 18, 2007, 03:31 PM | # Though I would be more impressed with the video if it had shots of the British Military in ceremony, castles, country life and a picture of the monarchy and House of Lords. I didn’t get those white modern domes in the video. If the song is about getting back to British Culture back to Anglo-Saxon tradition, I would think that the video would match that tradition. In some ways it did and in others it did not. I like the lyrics but the rythmn could be more stirring. 4
Posted by Furius on February 18, 2007, 03:48 PM | # Those comments on You Tube ought to give you hope GW. If the English still have the fire in their hearts, their country can be saved. The only question is how strong that fire is and how it can be kept alive. 5
Posted by Proofreader on February 18, 2007, 04:15 PM | # The lyrics: ‘ROOTS’ by Steve Knightley. “Now it’s been twenty-five years or more Seed, bud, flower, fruit After the speeches when the cake’s been cut Seed, bud, flower, fruit Haul away boys let them go And a minister said his vision of hell Seed, bud, flower, fruit Haul away boys let them go 6
Posted by Guessedworker on February 18, 2007, 05:26 PM | # Thanks, Proofreader. I appreciate that. 8
Posted by W.LindsayWheeler on February 20, 2007, 03:46 PM | # I would like to retract the last part of this sentence: “I like the lyrics but the rythmn could be more stirring.” The rythmn is alright. I can’t get the song out of my mind. It is quite catchy. This song reminds me of the time I spent in boot camp of the FFL. We had five Englishmen. On a couple of nights, they would burst into song. I didn’t know that Englishmen were such singers. They sung every tune from movies, to musical scores, to pop songs, to folk songs. They could go for hours. I was totally blown away and impressed. They knew so much by memory. It was one of my favorite times in the Legion. Next entry: Heroville Previous entry: To A Soulless White College Student |
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Posted by Alan (UK) on February 18, 2007, 12:04 PM | #
Yet another voice dissenting the programmed destruction of our country. Do I detect a growing retaliation against the tyrannical features of a failed Blairite regime? I sincerely hope I do, as the song says…..“This is my country and I want it back”.....we CAN take it back.