 | George Rowell - Drama - 1993 - 258 pages
...Macdermott', the music hall lion comique who in the previous year had proclaimed: We don't want to fight, but by Jingo! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too! playing Chateau-Renaud, the villain. At Christmas 1879 the pantomime was Bluff King Hal; or Harlequin... | |
 | Africa - 1994 - 256 pages
...impérialiste du Premier ministre Disraeli, à partir d'une chanson belliciste , "We don t want to go to fight, but by Jingo if we do, we've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too ..."*. L'affaire du Soudan est significative. Quand, en 1885, le Mahdi s'empara de Khartoum et extermina... | |
 | Bertolt Brecht - Drama - 1964 - 228 pages
...crimes? I prefer to read about them in the Times. WIDOW BEGBICK'S CANTEEN Projection: WE DON'T WANT TO FIGHT BUT BY JINGO IF WE DO WE'VE GOT THE SHIPS WE'VE GOT THE MEN WE'VE GOT THE MONEY TOO. — Gautama Buddha Early morning. GALY DAY is asleep on a wooden chair. The three are playing billiards.... | |
 | Paul Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 266 pages
...brought bubbling up the patriotic froth of the London crowd, whose music-hall refrain, We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too, was a not unfaithful rendition of the front Disraeli had exhibited to Europe in his Guildhall speech... | |
 | Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...Europe; and it drew the sting of the war fever, which filled the London music halls: We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do. We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons will be true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople!71... | |
 | Mike Corbishley - History - 1998 - 420 pages
...to India in 1 878 crowds raised the roofs of music halls with songs such as this: We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men. we've got the money too. We've fought the Bear belore, and while we're Britons true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople.... | |
 | Harold Strachan - Fiction - 1998 - 172 pages
...had pulled out, the French or the Germans would have been in like a shot. We don't want to go to war But, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, We've got the men, We've got the money too. At the time of this messenger's coming to GG, though, the British were bringing by train to the front... | |
 | Dan Rebellato - English Plays - 1999 - 280 pages
...and style, the song is a clear pastiche of GH McDermorr's famous song from 1877, 'We don't want to fight / But, by Jingo, if we do / We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too...' (cf. Summerfield 1986). Both songs hark back to a peak of British colonial confidence. The projected... | |
 | Trytten - Draft - 1952 - 150 pages
...day is past for the taunt which was once directed by the British at the Russians: "We don't want to fight, but, by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too." Uncle Sam can no longer advisedly play the role of Mr. Big. In sheer manpower he cannot match the Soviet... | |
 | Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 2011 - 373 pages
...was its poet laureate, and the popular sentiment was that of the music-hall song: We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too! Another, rather different nod of approval came from those who agreed with Sir Charles Crossthwaite... | |
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We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople. 
