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Ginger, you're barmy, You'll never join the Army, You'll never be a scout, With your shirt hanging out, Ginger, you're barmy. This rhyme derives from the popular song Ginger you're barmy written by Fred Murray, songwriter (composer of I'm Henery The Eighth I Am ), in 1910 and recorded in that year by Harry Champion - included in the Peelennium ...
- David Lodge
- 1962
Ginger, you're barmy by Lodge, David, 1935-Publication date 1984 Topics Great Britain. Army -- Military life -- Fiction, Great Britain. Army, Armed Forces -- Military ...
Ginger, You’re Barmy is the second book Lodge published many years ago – 1962, I think, and it already shows the dry humorous style which will become his trademark. Maybe not as skilled as his later novels, it is however very funny. Lettie Ransley compared it in a review published in The Guardian in 2011 with Catch 22. I liked the English ...
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Apr 25, 2021 · This was recorded on August 4, 1910. It helps to know that "cady" is a word for a boater hat.I'm always in the fashion. I'm a noted chap for that,for lately...
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- 2000
- Tim Gracyk
Ginger you're barmy by Lodge, David, 1935-Publication date 2011 Topics National service -- Great Britain -- Fiction, National service, Great Britain Publisher
Ginger, You're Barmy. David Lodge. Vintage, 2011 - Fiction - 223 pages. When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. For this is the British Army in the days of National Service, a grimy deposit of post-war gloom. An endless round of kit layout, square-bashing ...
Sep 15, 2023 · The label says "Balmy"=soothing, but of course it should be "Barmy"=mad. Harry Champion (real name William Crump) was one of the most famous of all the old-t...
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- Roger Wilmut
