Back To The Clankers Again

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

A dog returns to his vomit and a sow to her mire, and Sarah and the Clankers are back together and… well… not precisely live (not half of the group, at least) again.

This whole thing is fascinating, because I realized I’d skipped two important songs, the one for the birth of Selbur’s baby and the other Ad Leed listening to the gem playing. (The problem is you tube won’t let me reorganize the playlist. Sorry.)

And then, once I’d done that, it just kept pouring out, so there’s two more songs. I’m not going to apologize for the Looking For Home song. As weird as it is there isn’t anything even vaguely perverse going on, it’s the nature of the people of No Man’s Land, is all. This book is ridiculously wholesome despite itself. And if you read the book, you’ll sigh and say with me “Skip, you idiot.” Actually that also applies to the last song. Anyway.

3 thoughts on “Back To The Clankers Again”

  2. Sarah, at least it’s not the Army….

    I’m ‘ere in a ticky ulster an’ a broken billycock ‘at,

    A-layin’ on the sergeant I don’t know a gun from a bat;

    My shirt’s doin’ duty for jacket, my sock’s stickin’ out o’ my boots,

    An’ I’m learnin’ the damned old goose-step along o’ the new recruits!

    Back to the Army again, sergeant,

    Back to the Army again.

    Don’t look so ‘ard,

    for I ‘aven’t no card,

    I’m back to the Army again!

    https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_back.htm

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