Show J rr iJ An Ao EulI h Drinking Song The tune to which the tho song For Fot Hes He's a a. Jolly Joly Good Fellow is sung is L fu lIck which was once a n national air in France In In Marl brouck tho the death and burial of Queen Annes Anne's great captain aro burlesqued bur bur- and md in what some French critics critics' havo have considered its sc scathing thing satire satir the disasters of Blenheim an and Ramillies are aro believed belie to have beena been a avenged But the fact is really the reverse for fOl if read mad appreciatively expresses the widespread widespread wide- wide spread terror occasioned by tho the mere name namo of Blenheim's hero and the tho exultation exultation ex ex- ex- ex tion of tho the French when they heard of his death The coin com com- is supposed to have coma como from the Walloon country and it was unknown in the French capital until fifty years after Marlborough's death when a pe peasant ant woman wom woin- an San coming up to Versailles to nurse nurs tho the baby d dauphin brought it with her ber and sang her little baby charge to sleep leep with the tho old jingling rhyme From this 1 became becam J popular ar in Paris and ultimately it ii reached these shores The tune tUn being boing a catchy one wo we discarded tho thu French words and wedded wooded it once and for all to th our Bacchanalian chant of For hes he's a jolly good fellow It and hind so a song written in savage ri ridi- ridi i. i culo ulo of England and one of her greatest great great- greatS est generals became one of the most S popular airs s to which the latter's countrymen pledge jovial cups London N Not Notes and Queries |