Garry Owen ( American military march )

it's a traditional Irish tune used by the US Seventh Cavalry

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[FRAGIORGIO1]

Thanks for this fine march, the pictures of George Washington, our greatest hero and president (and don't come at me with Lincoln, no sir) and Custer and cavalry pics, Teddy & the Rough Riders, Pershing, WW II soldiers and Ike. Honor be to those who honor merit! Yesterday was Washington's birthday, but he is largely forgotten today, to our Shame. He was praised by George III when he heard Washington has resigned his command. "Why, he must be the greatest man in the world!" That's right.

[bluebelly07]

@angloirishcad Yeah, like they did at the Battle of Saratoga, or King's Mountain, Cowpens and many others? Or perhaps in 1814 at New Orleans? The U.S. Army still has fife and drum bands operating - being musicians, they have red coats. How ironic!

[realbaresoles2]

@angloirishcad And then defeated them.

[gespb32]

Jesus!!! America remembers her people!!

[godzilla74114]

@angloirishcad doesn't mean there weren't some here, as my family immigrated from Ireland before the revolution roughly 1740.

[MrJackBOOTJacker]

@angloirishcad The song is an Irish quick step song, it may have been used by the Brits, it can be tracked back to the 1860's, so it being a "red coat" song is false seeing as how this is decades after the American Revolution. The 7th Cavalry adopted the song in 1867.

[angloirishcad]

@Ewolf98 BTW, have to take issue on the ethnic bit. The Scots communities in the Colonies overwhelmingly served the loyalist side in the war.

The Revolution was led and dominated by English descended gentry with names like Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Gates, Greene

The Irish hadn't immigrated to America in numbers yet.

Plus the British fielded both Scots Highlander regiments and units made up of many Irishmen, both of whom often made the colonials flee gloriously...

[angloirishcad]

@Ewolf98 At the time Ireland was part of Britain, the Garry Owen was a marching song for the Royal Irish Lancers and other regiments in the British Army long before a colonist ever heard it, and is still played in the British Army, one of the only militaries in the world still to have operating fife and drum bands.

Yankee Doodle was also a mocking Redcoat tune, taken up by the Americans

[angloirishcad]

This was a British Marching song long before it was American

In fact, nervous continentals probably watched impassive Red-coats advancing to this tune