Play along with this Monks March fun!

[Jody Kruskal]

 

[Paul_Hardy]

This properly should be called Monck's March - General George Monck marched his Parliamentary army from Scotland to London in January 1660, and was then crucial to the bloodless restoration of England as a Kingdom, inviting the future Charles II from France, and escorting him from Dover to London to become King. Charles later made him Duke of Albemarle. This was despite Monck previously having been general to Oliver Cromwell, defeating the royalists in Scotland!

 

Monck had a reputation for avoiding battles, and for turning up late for them, and it is often said that the somewhat stop/start nature of this well-known tune is in honour of this habit.

 

Regards

Edited March 18, 2024 by Paul_Hardy
Minor clarifications

[Jody Kruskal]

Back in my 20s, my dancing days; I remember a pick-up side at Pinewoods Camp dancing Drunk's March. Every time I drained my mug some onlooker would fill it up again. It looked a bit like this...

 

 

[Jim Besser]

25 minutes ago, Jody Kruskal said:

Back in my 20s, my dancing days; I remember a pick-up side at Pinewoods Camp dancing Drunk's March. Every time I drained my mug some onlooker would fill it up again. It looked a bit like this...

 

 

 

I've played for Drunks March, always being very careful to keep my distance from the dancers and the sloshing pints

Edited March 19, 2024 by Jim Besser

[David Barnert]

On 3/18/2024 at 10:37 AM, Paul_Hardy said:

This properly should be called Monck's March...

4 hours ago, Jody Kruskal said:

... I remember a pick-up side at Pinewoods Camp dancing Drunk's March

 

Wouldn’t that be Drunck’s March? 

[Paul Draper]

What happened to the pint pots?