The Irish Colonel
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
The Irish Colonel is a poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in Songs of Action on 8 june 1898.
Editions
- in Songs of Action (1898-1916, Smith, Elder & Co. [UK])
- in Songs of Action (august 1898, Charles Scribner's Sons [US])
- in Songs of Action (september 1898, Doubleday, Page & Co. [US])
- The Irish Colonel (may 1901, Chappell & Co. No. 21129 [UK]) music score by Maude Valerie White
- The Irish Colonel and A Cavalry Catch (1913, Chappell & Co. No. 25753 [UK]) music score by Herbert H. Nelson
- in Songs of Action (1918-1920, John Murray [UK])
- in The Poems of Arthur Conan Doyle (1922-1928, John Murray [UK])
The Irish Colonel
Said the king to the colonel,
"The complaints are eternal,
That you Irish give more trouble
Than any other corps."
Said the colonel to the king,
"This complaint is no new thing,
For your foemen, sire, have made it
A hundred times before."
Adaptations
Music score
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