Talk:Stop the Cavalry

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The article should say that the tune is based on and almost the same as a traditional English tune called "The Stockport Polka" or "Rub a Dub". But I can't find a reference to this other than reading the music and seeing that it's the same - is that original research? Nor can I date the folk tune to before the Jonah Lewie release. Here's a link: http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/musicaviva.com/tunes/anon/rub-a-dub/rub-a-dub-1/0000 Can anyone help? --Barti Ddu (talk) 11:10, 28 December 2018 (UTC)


 * "Retro 1260 KGIL" <- what is that?
 * Since its meaning, if any, is obscure it should probably be removed. 174.16.23.157 (talk) 03:59, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


 * what is meant in the text about 'Mary Bradley' (this?) ?
 * I see nothing about Bradley in the text or in the article history. 174.16.23.157 (talk) 03:59, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

--Itu (talk) 23:46, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I found the follwing words in the song text: "Mary Bradley waits at home in the nuclear fall-out zone". A nuclear fall-out zone was unknown at the First World War, the first nuclear bomb exploded in 1945. So I am not sure, if the song is about WW I. --Holger1974 (talk) 13:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

e.g. by Goran Bregović in his 2018 album "Three Letters from Sarajevo, Opus 1 (Deluxe Edition)" (ref : https://www.top-charts.com/r/three-letters-from-sarajevo-deluxe-edition-goran-bregovic) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.78.85.129 (talk) 07:08, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
 * There should be a section with other singers having sung the song.

Prokofiev
It's astonishing that nobody has even mentioned Prokofiev, who took the theme from an old Russian folk song and used it in a film score he wrote in the 1930s. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Kij%C3%A9_(Prokofiev): 92.238.77.109 (talk) 10:54, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Irish Popularity
The text claims that the Irish Times named this song as the fourth most popular Christmas song in Ireland. In fact, this survey (as can be seen by clicking on the link) was simply a twitter poll asking people to respond to four different options. I'm not minded or motivated to make any changes, but you could equally claim from this evidence that, as fourth of four options, "Stop the Cavalry" is the least popular Christmas song in Ireland. 84.231.230.79 (talk) 15:48, 9 December 2023 (UTC)