 | Kenneth Schuyler Lynn - 1997 - 616 pàgines
...excitement in the way The Great MacDermott could when he launched into "We don't want to fight, yet by Jingo! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, and got the money too." Or George Leybourne, whose rendition of the drinking song "Champagne Charlie" had... | |
 | David N. Durant - 1998 - 356 pàgines
...Disraeli's war-like policy toward Russia in 1878. A popular song by GW Hunt went: We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, and we've got the money too. 'By Jingo' appears in Cervantes' Don Quixote, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, and later in... | |
 | Mike Corbishley - 1998 - 420 pàgines
...to India in 1 878 crowds raised the roofs of music halls with songs such as this: We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men. we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear belore, and while we're Britons true, The Russians shall... | |
 | Harold Strachan - 1998 - 172 pàgines
...had pulled out, the French or the Germans would have been in like a shot. We don't want to go to war But, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, We've got the men, We've got the money too. At the time of this messenger's coming to GG, though, the British were bringing... | |
 | Halik Kochanski - 1999 - 380 pàgines
...Russia became commonplace in Britain. In the music halls the audiences sang of war: We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo if we do, We've got the ships; we've got the men; and we've got the money too! The truth was, however, somewhat different. Britain had the ships: HMS Devastation, the most modern... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1999 - 916 pàgines
...which appeared at the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-8) and includes the lines: 'We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do, | We've got the ships, we've got the men, and got the money too'. Metssomer. Ernest (1815-91), a French painter of detailed historical pictures,... | |
 | Trytten - 1952 - 150 pàgines
...day is past for the taunt which was once directed by the British at the Russians: "We don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too." Uncle Sam can no longer advisedly play the role of Mr. Big. In sheer manpower... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - 2011 - 373 pàgines
...was its poet laureate, and the popular sentiment was that of the music-hall song: We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too! Another, rather different nod of approval came from those who agreed with... | |
 | Dan Rebellato - 1999 - 280 pàgines
...and style, the song is a clear pastiche of GH McDermorr's famous song from 1877, 'We don't want to fight / But, by Jingo, if we do / We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too...' (cf. Summerfield 1986). Both songs hark back to a peak of British colonial... | |
 | Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering, Stig Förster - 1999 - 506 pàgines
...chauvinistic music-hall song in London. G. W Hunt, Song (Chorus) 1878: "We don't want to fight, yet by Jingo! if we do. We've got the ships, we've got the men, and got the money too." Quoted in "Jingo," Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 20 vols. (Oxford, 1989),... | |
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We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. 
