Wheels On The Bus: The Grand Old Duke Of York [VHS]

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They were neither up nor down. [2] Origins [ edit ] Richard Tarlton in the 1580s with his pipe and tabor

Miniature Golf (US Original PBS Version and US Pledge Drive Version) (Top Right Window Sketch in the US Original PBS Version and the US Sprout Version, Bottom Left Window Sketch in the US Pledge Drive Version)The Video Collection children's trailer from 1993 with clips of "Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends", "Rosie and Jim", "Tots TV", and "The Wind in the Willows".

This is the first episode to have the video segment filmed at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The other three episodes were See-Saw, Humpty Dumpty, and Hey Diddle Diddle. In the 1642 version of the song, the Grand Old Duke (referred to as “The King of France”) has forty thousand men, and there’s also a Dutch version of the song, which is about Prince Maurice of Orange instead, that lists a hundred thousand men. a b Murray, Robin (10 May 2022). "The Kunts Announce New Single 'Prince Andrew Is A Sweaty Nonce' ". Clash Music . Retrieved 28 May 2022. The lyrics of ‘Grand Old Duke’ have come to stand for futile and useless military (or general) action. The men are marched up, then down, and the only thing to be said of it is that once they were up there, they were “up”, and once they were down again, they were “down”. Nothing else was achieved.James II (1633–1701), formerly Duke of York, who in 1688 marched his troops to Salisbury Plain to resist the invasion from his son-in-law William of Orange, only to retreat and disperse them as his support began to evaporate. [6] Read more: What are the lyrics and meaning of ‘Hey Diddle Diddle’, and who wrote the nursery rhyme? In Wrapping, and the PBS Versions of Numbers - 4 (Version 1 of the Original PBS Version and Rerun Version), Washing the Car (Sprout Version), Rabbits (Original PBS Version), Funny Walks (Sprout Version) and Cat's Night Out (Rerun Version), the Sun Baby giggles before Tubby Bye-Bye happens after the Magic Event ends. As a result, the argument has been made that it may have been a common satirical verse that was adapted as appropriate and, because it was recorded in roughly the modern form, has become fixed on the Duke of York. [2] Candidates for the duke in question include: In the US dub Version of The Magic House, the puppet sings with the same voice on each window, unlike in the Original UK Version where he sings with a different voice on each of the windows.