pultneytooner
17-Oct-06, 23:34
I'm interested in a song about a soldier's widow, Henny Munro. She had followed her husband in all his campaigns, marches and battles, in Sicily and in Spain and stayed with him till his last hour.
After his death she returned to the place of her birth totaly bereft of any means of support but she was treated well by her friends who built her a small cottage and gave her a cow and grazing land. The din of arms, orders and counter-orders from head-quarters, marchings and counter-marchings and pitched battles, retreats and advances, were the leading and nearly unceasing subjects of her winter evening conversations. She was a joyous, cheery old creature; so inoffensive, moreover, and so contented, and brimful of good-will that all who got acquainted with old Henny Munro could only desire to do her a good turn, were it merely for the warm and hearty expressions of gratitude with which it was received.
Anybody know the lyrics to the song about this fascinating woman?
After his death she returned to the place of her birth totaly bereft of any means of support but she was treated well by her friends who built her a small cottage and gave her a cow and grazing land. The din of arms, orders and counter-orders from head-quarters, marchings and counter-marchings and pitched battles, retreats and advances, were the leading and nearly unceasing subjects of her winter evening conversations. She was a joyous, cheery old creature; so inoffensive, moreover, and so contented, and brimful of good-will that all who got acquainted with old Henny Munro could only desire to do her a good turn, were it merely for the warm and hearty expressions of gratitude with which it was received.
Anybody know the lyrics to the song about this fascinating woman?