G.K.C.'s Pet Songs
eT eT THe HT eT eH ST Te TTT eT eT Te st Setting the Waterworks on Fire THE late Mr. G. K. Chesterton was once asked by Compton Mackenzie to name his favourite song. Here is his characteristic reply: "My taste in songs wavers among somewhat different examples; but I think it would probably be between the noble Scottish song, ‘Caller Herrin’,’ which seems to me full of the Scottish sense of human dignity for the poor, and some specimen of the broader and more genial English spirit, such as the beautiful lyric that goes: Father’s got the sack from the waterworks For smoking his old cherry briar, ‘He,’ said Foreman Joe, ‘would bloody well have to go, As he’d probably set the waterworks on fire.’ " UST ee Ter TTT Te TTT ATT 41 eer TST eH ST SETS ee et TTT "
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Radio Record, Volume XI, Issue 1, 10 July 1936, Page 14
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146G.K.C.'s Pet Songs Radio Record, Volume XI, Issue 1, 10 July 1936, Page 14
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