Talk:Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre
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[edit] English lyrics
These english lyrics are really bad! They arn't a direct translation of the french, and they even get Marlbrough's name wrong! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.69.190.75 (talk) 18:58, 15 May 2007 (UTC).
- Blame Longfellow --- "The English version shown below was written by the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the 19th Century." Canuckle 20:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
The pronunciation is the same as in French, though. I personally never knew this song was about a Marlbrough; I had always assumed the name of the gentleman in the song was "Malbrouc". 24.201.253.66 (talk) 18:56, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Impressive...
I've never been much of a fan of Wikipedia's category system, but hey!, this article made me add another item to my bucket list: I sincerely would like to meet the person who plucked up the courage to create a category like "1709 songs", containing nothing but this song (for obvious reasons). Let me add that I also deem it fairly naïve to assume that Marlbrough actually dates from that precise year. --Rainer Lewalter (talk) 13:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
