An Auspicious Day in History

Self ^ | 10/19/2010 | Self

[SES1066]

October 19th, 1781, British Troops marched out of the battlements of Yorktown, with encased colors and their band playing "The World Turned Upside Down". The British Government, after learning of this loss, became convinced that, 6 years and 6 months after the April 19th battles of Lexington & Concord, the war to retain their American Colonies was lost. Thus with the major help of an international alliance that included major European Powers of France and Spain, a rag-tag and frequently shoeless Continental Army and local militias defeated the world's dominate super-power.

[SES1066]

Within 6 years the world would witness General Washington voluntarily giving up his command, an action that King George III referred to as the 'greatest' act, and the creation of the world's oldest active written Constitution and the successful implementation of its' designed government, the first successful republic in centuries and still arguably the longest same-form government in today's world.

Take pride in America and show your devotion by VOTING! We owe our progenitors nothing less for their sacrifices!

[major-pelham]

Hear, hear ! Washington, among the handful of most important persons to have ever lived ! Imagine the scoldings in a discussion between President Washington and President Obama ? What a way to say thanks to those that pledged their hearts, fortunes, lives and sacred honor.

[ExpatGator]

“dominant superpower”, not “dominate superpower”

[ETL]

"The World Turned Upside Down" - by Mort Kunstler

http://www.framingfox.com/thewbymorkun.html

[I Buried My Guns]

And yet opur Founding Fathers would weep if they saw the cultural and moral morass that exists in our once-great Nation today.

[I Buried My Guns]

“Our”

[tlb]

“The World Turned Upside Down”, a British folk song adapted into a march.

This piece was performed January 17, 2009 at the Amarillo Globe News Theatre by the 2009 All-Region (1) Symphonic Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSExogKSOyc

March:

If buttercups buzz’d after the bee,
If boats were on land, churches on sea,
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows,
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse,
If the mamas sold their babies
To the gypsies for half a crown;
If summer were spring and the other way round,
Then all the world would be upside down.

Folk song:

Goody Bull and her daughter together fell out,
Both squabbled and wrangled and made a great rout.
But the cause of the quarrel remains to be told,
Then lend both your ears and a tale I’ll unfold.
Derry down, down, hey derry down,
Then lend both your ears and a tale I’ll unfold.

The old lady, it seems, took a freak in her head,
That her daughter, grown woman, might earn her own bread,
Self-applauding her scheme, she was ready to dance,
But we’re often too sanguine in what we advance.
Derry down, down, hey derry down,
But we’re often too sanguine in what we advance.

For mark the event, thus for fortune we’re cross,
Nor should people reckon without their good host,
The daughter was sulky and wouldn’t come to,
And pray what in this case could the old woman do?
Derry down, down, hey derry down,
And pray what in this case could the old woman do?

Zounds, neighbor, quoth pitt, what the devil’s the matter?
A man cannot rest in his home for your clatter
Alas, cries the daughter, Here’s dainty fine work,
The old woman grows harder than Jew or than Turk
Derry down, down, hey derry down,
The old woman grows harder than Jew or than Turk.

She be damned, says the farmer, and do her he goes
First roars in her ears, then tweaks her old nose,
Hello Goody, what ails you? Wake woman, I say,
I am come to make peace in this desperate fray.
Derry down, down, hey derry down,
I am come to make peace in this desperate fray.

Alas, cries the old woman, And must I comply?
I’d rather submit than the hussy should die.
Pooh, prithee, be quiet, be friends and agree,
You must surely be right if you’re guided by me,
Derry down, down, hey derry down,
You must surely be right if you’re guided by me.

[ETL]

our Founding Fathers would weep if they saw the cultural and moral morass that exists in our once-great Nation today.

Yes, it is indeed a world turned upside down, thanks to decades of liberal/left incrementalism and silent majority apathy.

[PzLdr]

If I recall correctly, one of the ironies of the ceremony was that the song “And the World Turned Upside Down” was written by Gen. John “gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne,the loser at Saratoga, which brought the French into the war.

[ETL]

Thanks. I didn’t know that. Another irony is that he was defeated at Saratoga largely by Bennedict Arnold!