"Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Prisoner's Hope)" was one of the most popular songs of the American Civil War. George F. Root wrote both the words and music and published it in 1864 to give hope to the Union prisoners of war. The song is written from the prisoner's point of view. The chorus tells his fellow prisoners that hope is coming.
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In popular culture
The song has been parodied numerous times, an early variant being "Damn, Damn, Damn the Filipinos". It also lends the music to an Irish patriotic song, "God Save Ireland", as well as the children's song "Jesus Loves the Little Children". It has also been used for the World War I song, Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser. Hawkeye (Alan Alda) twice responds to someone making a thrice repeated complaint (such as "Gripe, gripe, gripe!") by singing the line from the song "the boys are marching" on M*A*S*H. In the November 26, 2010, edition of the Pickles comic strip, lead character Earl Pickles sings the chorus as a preemptive strike against his wife's urge to sing holiday songs.Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, one of Chile's most important football clubs, used the music of this song in its official anthem.
The film tells of Harry (Langdon) a ne'er-do-well who falls in love with Betty, a girl on a billboard (Crawford). Harry participates in a cross country foot race hoping to win prize money in hopes of marrying her.
In a recent review of the 1926 film, critic Maria Schneider wrote, "Langdon was most often cast as an oblivious innocent adrift in a corrupt world, a formula that made him terrifically popular in the mid-1920s...An acquired taste, Harry Langdon's gentle absurdities and slow rhythms take some getting used to, but patient viewers will be rewarded."
The staff at TV Guide gave the film a mixed review, writing, "An amusing and sunny outdoor comedy, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp seems weak only in comparison with Langdon's next feature, The Strong Man (1926), a much richer blend of laughs, thrills, and tears. Among the earlier film's deficiencies is an anemic story. The bulk of the movie is devoted to little more than a succession of pickles Harry gets himself into on his way west. Nothing is made of the fact that the Logans' landlord and the world walking champion are the same man. (If one isn't paying close attention, one may not be sure that they are the same man.) And someone should have thought up a more humorous or exciting way for Harry to win the marathon; a viewer's reconstruction of the script would simply note that 'Harry wins the race.'"
In the prison cell I sit, Thinking Mother dear of you, And our bright and happy home so far away, And the tears they fill my eyes Spite of all that I can do Though I try to cheer my comrades and be gay. Chorus: Tramp! tramp! tramp! The boys are marching Cheer up comrades, They will come. And beneath the starry flag We shall breathe the air again Of the free land in our own beloved home. In the battle front we stood When their fiercest charge they made, And they swept us off a hundred men or more; But before we reached their lines They were beaten back, dismayed, And we heard the cry of vict'ry o'er and o'er.
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled ... So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town ... For every boot that tramped in battle, every cloak rolled in blood, will be burned as fuel for flames ... .
Pixelle in Spring Grove, formerly Glatfelter, operates the highest-profile mill, continuing to grind pulp wood in the papermaking process.Researchers tramp around county.
... and they had been living separately since 15 years,” West Godavari superintendent of police Adnan Nayeem Asmi told PTI, adding that later Parlayya lived like a tramp on the roadside and at temples.
There’s no room at the inn in Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire. Because there’s no inn. No shops ... There were no cattle lowing when I tramped across the dank fields ... It’s a 10-mile tramp, so you can easily be at a bus stop or train station by dusk ... .
(Photo by Disney /Courtesy EverettCollection) All 22 Disney Live-Action Remakes Ranked. The Lion King celebrates its 5th anniversary! ... In 2019 alone, there were five releases ... Mistress of Evil, and Lady and the Tramp ... #1 ... #1 ... #2 ... Lady and the Tramp (2019).
Before pointing an accusing finger at China's military, the US should clarify why it needs so many US military boots tramping around the world and why it needs to keep such a huge nuclear arsenal ... .
It was Monday, Dec. 16, of this year ...Sometimes I use the binoculars to make sure. I can also see when the mail arrives ... The substitute mail person will bring a package to our door also, but put the mail in the mail box for us to tramp out and retrieve ... .
It’s the Christmases of my childhood that I remember always and cherish most. They were simple and humble with no fancy frills or garland ...Daddy tramped into the woods, chopped down a pine tree, and dragged it home tied behind that blue Ford tractor.
It’s hard to imagine a list of Christmassy pubs without the maximalist Churchill in Kensington... There’s a post box by the door, reindeer near the roof and a giant Ho Ho Ho in lights over the window ... PR ... In between, take a bracing tramp over the beach ... .
The Brutalist is a big, muscular American epic that pits the individual against the machine; the artist against the cogs and wheels of commerce ... László is determined to make his masterpiece ... View image in fullscreen ... “You’re just a tramp,” he declares ... .
Borg has even created his own holiday tradition, watching his well-worn “Lady and the Tramp” DVD alone in the tower on Christmas Eve, with one eye on the lights of the town below.
Photo-Illustration. Vulture; Photos. Disney. This article was originally published on May 26, 2023. It’s been updated to include Disney’s latest “live-action” prequel, Mufasa. The Lion King... 23. The Jungle Book ... 23 ... 22 ... 21 ... 20 ... 19 ... 18 ...Lady and the Tramp (2019) ... 9.
Fort Madison Daily Democrat
22 Dec 2024
Fort Madison Daily Democrat
22 Dec 2024