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by Marriott Edgar (1941)
Sam Goes To It is evidence that people get confused in later life.
This story has Sam fighting for the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon I at the Battle of Waterloo in Flanders (1815), and also a few miles to the east, fighting for Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Winnie) who defeated Hitler at the Normandy Invasion (1944).
It's a cozy poem which ends up with two old soldiers in the Home Guard (a "Dad's Army" of Local Defence Volunteers) telling tall stories to each other, as only old soldiers can do.
Sam Small had retired from the Army, He'd lived for some years in retirement, 'T were as if bugles called Sam to duty, | |
Straight off to the Fusilliers' depot, Now Sam wasn't getting no younger, So he took up the matter with Churchill, "I don't want no favours" Sam answered, "I'll fit you in somewhere," said Winnie, They gave Sam a coat with no stripes on, |
Eh? |
He said "I come back to the Army, He found all the lads sympathetic, Said the old fella, "Who do you think you are? |
Said Sam, "Wasn't I at Corunna, "I didn't?" said Sam quite indignent, "What do you know of Duke and his battles?" And if you should look in any evening, |
Nowt of the sort |
One of the most popular stories of Waterloo; Les Misérables