Английская Википедия:How Stands the Glass Around

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The melody of How Stands the Glass Around
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James Wolfe, posthumous portrait

"How Stands the Glass Around", also referred to as "General Wolfe's Song", is an English folk song.[1] The lyrics express the suffering of soldiers, wherefore the song was primarily popular among people serving in the military.[2] It deals with the helplessness experienced during war and the boldness demanded in the military, but also about reducing fear and pain by consuming alcohol. One paper suggests that it was the favourite song of Alexander Hamilton.[3]

Background

The oldest known reference to the song is an alternative text written for a ballad opera in the year 1729.[4][1][2] It became notorious after Wolfe was reported to have sung it before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (1759), gaining thereby the alternative title of "General Wolfe's Song".[1][2][5]

Lyrics

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Melody

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Further use

Trivia

Recordings

Sources

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  8. Stephen Carl Arch: Writing a Federalist Self: Alexander Graydon's Memoirs of a Life . In: The William and Mary Quarterly . tape 52 , no. 3 . Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, July 1995, pp. 415-432 , doi : 10.2307 / 2947293 (English).
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  10. Francis S. Drake: Dictionary of American Biography. James R. Osgood and Company, Boston 1874, p. 377
  11. Alexander Graydon. In: Penn People. University Archives and Records Center