{"id":2683,"date":"2014-09-05T20:06:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T00:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=2683"},"modified":"2014-09-05T20:09:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T00:09:24","slug":"we-were-drunk-last-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=2683","title":{"rendered":"We Were Drunk Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song that Tim often uses to bridge between larger songs.\u00a0 The actual origins of this song are vague but it is known to have become popular amongst soldiers during the First World War, and it is made mention of by James Joyce in \u201cUlysses\u201d and \u201cFinnegan\u2019s Wake\u201d.\u00a0 The actual lyrics vary according to who is singing it for, as is part of folk music, it is more about the expression of the person delivering it than the preservation of an original set of lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Soldiers-Drinking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2685\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Soldiers-Drinking-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"Soldiers Drinking\" width=\"406\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Soldiers-Drinking-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Soldiers-Drinking-624x400.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Soldiers-Drinking.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We were drunk last night.<br \/>\nWe were drunk the night before,<br \/>\nWe\u2019re gonna get drunk tonight<br \/>\nlike we\u2019ve never been drunk before,<br \/>\nFor we are the soldiers of the Royal Artillery!<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<br \/>\n<em><strong>Singing Glo-ri-ous! Vic-to-rious!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> One keg of beer between the four of us!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> And glory be to God that there are not any more of us;<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> For one of us could drink the blooming lot!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And glory be to God that there are not any more of us,<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> For one of us could drink the blooming, drink the blooming lot!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup>\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song that Tim often uses to bridge between larger songs.\u00a0 The actual origins of this song are vague but it is known to have become popular amongst soldiers during the First World War, and it is made mention of by James Joyce in \u201cUlysses\u201d and \u201cFinnegan\u2019s Wake\u201d.\u00a0 The actual lyrics vary according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2683","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683\/revisions\/2687"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}