Gang-gang: 100 years ago - 'Tipperary' the best-known song of the Great War

By Ian Warden
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:52pm, first published October 16 2014 - 11:45pm

One hundred years ago this week, with the Great War underway, the Molong Argus introduced its readers to Tipperary, "the song being sung by soldiers as they march along the roads in France". Its chorus has become the best-known song of the Great War, but the whole ditty turns out to be about love, not war. Homesick, lovelorn Paddy is in London but has just received a letter from home that has him bidding the mighty metropolis goodbye. All together now, readers!

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