{"id":1324,"date":"2020-05-11T19:16:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T19:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guide-for-london.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2022-02-26T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T13:56:22","slug":"the-girl-i-left-behind-me-brighton-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guide-for-london.com\/ru\/the-girl-i-left-behind-me-brighton-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Girl I Left Behind Me (Brighton Camp)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the song about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Girl I Left Behind Me (Brighton Camp)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TfBbuuuZMoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The Girl I Left Behind Me (Brighton Camp<\/em>) is sung by a soldier going to war, who remembers the beautiful girl whom he left back home, hoping to return to her soon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1326\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1326 size-medium\" title=\"The Girl I Left Behind Me, by\u00a0Eastman Johnson, early 1870s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.guide-for-london.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/597px-Eastman_Johnson_-_The_Girl_I_Left_Behind_Me_-_Smithsonian-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Girl I Left Behind Me, by\u00a0Eastman Johnson, early 1870s\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guide-for-london.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/597px-Eastman_Johnson_-_The_Girl_I_Left_Behind_Me_-_Smithsonian-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.guide-for-london.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/597px-Eastman_Johnson_-_The_Girl_I_Left_Behind_Me_-_Smithsonian.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Girl I Left Behind Me, by\u00a0Eastman Johnson, early 1870s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Where did it start?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As with many folk songs, no one knows for sure. Some date the song to the times of Queen Elizabeth I (17th century), when it was played when soldiers or a naval ship left for war.<\/p>\n<p>William Chappell, a music researcher and writer (of music publishers Chappell and Co. fame) and the first person who seriously studied traditional English tunes, in 1859 dated the song to 1758, when there were military encampments on the coast of the English Channel. This was during the Seven Years War, when the French planned an invasion of Britain, which never materialised.<\/p>\n<p>The first printed mention <em>The Girl I Left Behind<\/em> is from Ireland, in a serial song collection The Charms of Melody,\u00a0printed in Dublin in 1791. The earliest known version of the melody was printed about 1810 in Hime&#8217;s\u00a0Pocket Book for the German Flute or Violin\u00a0(Dublin).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Girl I Left Behind Me<\/em> travels around the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 19th century this tune had some different Irish and English language lyrics in Ireland, including one called An Spailp\u00edn F\u00e1nach (The Rambling Labourer).<\/p>\n<p>Early American settlers mention a song called Brighton Camp, but it might have had a different tune.<\/p>\n<p>During the Napoleonic wars (1812), when America quarrelled with England once again, after the Wars of Independence, the song became popular in the US army as a marching tune \u2013 it is easy to play on the fife, a staple instrument of military bands.<\/p>\n<p>During American Civil War both sides popularised the song with their own adapted lyrics, one version inspired by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<p>In the early stages of WWI, the British army used an obscene version of this song which ran in part:<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Bill is feeling ill,<br \/>\nthe Crown Prince has gone barmy,<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t give a f*** for old von Kluck<br \/>\nAnd all his bleedin&#8217; army<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Girl I Left Behind Me<\/em> Lives On<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The song found its way into the modern culture, too, from Bug\u2019s Bunny (A Wild Hare), where he plays it on a carrot for a fife, and Popeye\u00a0cartoon\u00a0<em>Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor<\/em>, to films about American civil war, Westerns and the Indian War, as well as TV series <em>Hornblower<\/em> and <em>Sharpe\u2019s Company<\/em>. It features in the 1968 film <em>The Charge of the Light Brigade<\/em> and 1970s film <em>Waterloo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1325 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.guide-for-london.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TheGirlILeftBunny-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guide-for-london.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TheGirlILeftBunny-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.guide-for-london.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/TheGirlILeftBunny.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are over 50 recordings of the song by various artists, including being referenced by Glenn Miller&#8217;s arrangement of <em>American Patrol<\/em>, popularised during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\">World War II<\/a>. Bing Crosby\u00a0included the song in a medley on his album<em>\u00a0101 Gang Songs<\/em>\u00a0(1961).<\/p>\n<p>The site sessions.org mentions 15 settings of the tune, as well as numerous name variations and the fact that it was added to 226 tunebooks.<\/p>\n<p>The tune is popular with Morris dancers, often referred to as<em> Brighton Camp<\/em>, (Polka step in Morris dance, or as a 2\/2 country dance tune). It was collected from musicians of the Cotswolds villages, where it was part of the popular music traditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lyrics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lonesome since I crossed the hill,<br \/>\nAnd o&#8217;er the moorland sedgy<br \/>\nSuch heavy thoughts my heart do fill,<br \/>\nSince parting with my Betsey<br \/>\nI seek for one as fair and gay,<br \/>\nBut find none to remind me<br \/>\nHow sweet the hours I passed away,<br \/>\nWith the girl I left behind me.<\/p>\n<p>O ne&#8217;er shall I forget the night,<br \/>\nthe stars were bright above me<br \/>\nAnd gently lent their silv&#8217;ry light<br \/>\nwhen first she vowed to love me<br \/>\nBut now I&#8217;m bound to Brighton camp<br \/>\nkind heaven then pray guide me<br \/>\nAnd send me safely back again,<br \/>\nto the girl I left behind me<\/p>\n<p>Her golden hair in ringlets fair,<br \/>\nher eyes like diamonds shining<br \/>\nHer slender waist, her heavenly face,<br \/>\nthat leaves my heart still pining<br \/>\nYe gods above oh hear my prayer<br \/>\nto my beauteous fair to find me<br \/>\nAnd send me safely back again,<br \/>\nto the girl I left behind me<\/p>\n<p>The bee shall honey taste no more,<br \/>\nthe dove become a ranger<br \/>\nThe falling waters cease to roar,<br \/>\nere I shall seek to change her<br \/>\nThe vows we made to heav&#8217;n above<br \/>\nshall ever cheer and bind me<br \/>\nIn constancy to her I love,<br \/>\nthe girl I left behind me.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Girl_I_Left_Behind\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Girl_I_Left_Behind<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesession.org\/tunes\/5418\">https:\/\/thesession.org\/tunes\/5418<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folktunefinder.com\/tunes\/3380\">http:\/\/www.folktunefinder.com\/tunes\/3380<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemplator.com\/england\/girl.html\">http:\/\/www.contemplator.com\/england\/girl.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acousticmusicarchive.com\/the-girl-i-left-behind-me-brighton-camp-chords-lyrics\">https:\/\/www.acousticmusicarchive.com\/the-girl-i-left-behind-me-brighton-camp-chords-lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tunearch.org\/wiki\/Girl_I_Left_Behind_Me_(1)_(The)\">https:\/\/tunearch.org\/wiki\/Girl_I_Left_Behind_Me_(1)_(The)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the song about? The Girl I Left Behind Me (Brighton Camp) is sung by a soldier going to war, who remembers the beautiful girl whom he left back home, hoping to return to her soon. Where did it start? As with many folk songs, no one knows for sure. 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