{"id":21920,"date":"2023-07-15T15:14:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=21920"},"modified":"2023-12-22T06:49:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T06:49:10","slug":"just-like-bein-at-hame","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/just-like-bein-at-hame\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like bein’ at hame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This song reflects racist, misogynist and colonial ideas that were commonplace at the time but are no longer acceptable today.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AKA<\/strong><\/td>Just like being at home
There’s a piper playing in the morning<\/td><\/tr>
First Published<\/td>1910<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Writer\/composer<\/td>Harry Lauder and William Hargreaves<\/td>Roud<\/strong><\/td>RN43188<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Music Hall Performers<\/strong><\/td>Harry Lauder<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Collected from the singing of:<\/strong>
Weir, Tom; Canada : Ontario; 1964<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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It's just like bein' at hame <\/strong>\n(There's a piper playing in the morning)<\/strong>\n[From sheet music]\n\nA Highland regiment was forced to start, \nTo a distant land across the foam;\nWhilst a poor old mither, with a heavy heart,\nWaited anxiously at home.\nSoon her sad face turned into a smiling one,\nWhen a letter came from across the sea\nFor it said \"Don't cry! Don't you sigh!\nI'm as happy as can be\":\n\nThere's a piper playing in the morning,\nAn auld Scotch tune so fine\nThere's a tartan pladdie buckled on each laddie\nOh it's just like Auld Lang Syne.\nI can hear them praising Bonnie Scotland,\nBonnie Scotland's fame,\nSo don't sigh dear, Am a'richt here\nIt's just like being at hame.<\/em>\n\nThe fierce fight lengthened and the months dragged on,\nWhilst the roll call shorten'd every day;\nThough they saw their comrades falling, one by one\nYet they bravely fought their way;\nFor the handful left had sworn to do or die,\nAnd with one long cheer they forged ahead;\nAnd a Highland lad fought like mad,\nAs mither proudly read:\n\nThe flag was planted beneath the scorching sun,\nWhere the white man's rule will ever reign;\nAnd the brave Scots soldiers who had fought and won\nWere returning home again.\nAnd the Highland mither watched the passing ranks\nFor the face of one she loved so dear,\nAnd in frenzied joy, kissed her boy,\nAs he whispered in her ear:\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Harry Lauder<\/a> wrote and performed a number of songs in praise of the armed forces, particularly during World War I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its possible that this earlier song, from around 1910, was written in response to the latest conflict at what the British called the “North West Frontier”: The Bazar Valley Campaign of 1908. On the other hand it may well just be another generic Music Hall song in praise of soldiers fighting for Empire – there were plenty! (For other examples see Song Theme: Emigration and empire<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lauder’s martial songs of empire seem to have been less likely to have entered the repertoire of traditional singers, but this one did. It was collected from the singing of a Canadian traditional singer Tom Weir by Edith Fowke in 1964.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
It’s just like bein’ at hame <\/em>downloaded from Archive.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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