The Recruiting Sergeant
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- Written by
- Seamus O'Farrell
- Language
- English
- Comments
- Anti-recruiting song and was composed by Irishman Seamus O'Farrell in 1915. The tune is that of The Peeler and the Goat. It was branded a ‘treason’ song by the British and anyone heard singing it in public rendered himself liable to six months' imprisonment.
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