Talk:The Recruiting Serjeant

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Did you know... that the 1770 burletta The Recruiting Serjeant has a sergeant cheerily describing the sight of "heads, and limbs, and bullets flying" during battle (song, right) to a potential army recruit?

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Assessment[edit]

I assessed this as a stub, but with a song list or more background about the show it would be a "start" -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:56, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lyrics?[edit]

Would be great to have lyrics at Wikisource. I could not discern all the words. Interesting song and greatly performed in the ogg file. --CopperKettle (talk) 08:56, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The source linked in the bibliography section is a complete libretto. It could be copied over. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 11:48, 3 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]