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- Johnny_I_Hardly_Knew_Ye abstract "\"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye\" (also known as \"Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye\" or \"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya\") is a popular traditional song, sung to the same tune as \"When Johnny Comes Marching Home\". First published in London in 1867 and written by Joseph B. Geoghegan, a prolific English songwriter and successful music hall figure, it remained popular in Britain and Ireland and the United States into the early years of the 20th century. The song was recorded by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem on their self-titled album in 1961, leading to a renewal of its popularity.Originally seen as humorous, the song today is considered a powerful anti-war song. Except for an initial framing stanza, the song is a monologue by an Irish woman who meets her former lover on the road to Athy (rhymes with \"eye\" and \"cry\"), which is located in County Kildare, Ireland. After their illegitimate child was born, the lover ran away and became a soldier. He was badly disfigured, losing his legs, his arms, his eyes and, in some versions, his nose, in fighting on the island of \"Sulloon\", or Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), and will have to be put in (or, in some versions, with) a bowl to beg. In spite of all this, the woman says, she is happy to see him and will keep him on as her beau. Modern versions often end with an anti-war affirmation.The song has often been supposed to be an anti-recruiting song and to have been written in Ireland in the late 18th or early 19th century, at the time of or in response to the Kandyan Wars, which were fought in Sri Lanka between 1795 and 1818. It has also been widely speculated that \"When Johnny Comes Marching Home\", which in actuality was published in 1863, four years earlier than \"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye\", was a rewrite of \"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye\" to make it more pro-war. However, a recent study by Dr. Jonathan Lighter, Lecturer in English at the University of Tennessee and editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, has shown that these suppositions are incorrect.".
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- Johnny_I_Hardly_Knew_Ye comment "\"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye\" (also known as \"Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye\" or \"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya\") is a popular traditional song, sung to the same tune as \"When Johnny Comes Marching Home\". First published in London in 1867 and written by Joseph B. Geoghegan, a prolific English songwriter and successful music hall figure, it remained popular in Britain and Ireland and the United States into the early years of the 20th century.".
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