Happy St Davids Day

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I like the Welsh!

Well someone has to

[Heedless Horseman]

Some Daff'd stuff here today. Keep it up!     

[flamingpig0]

Well someone has to

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

But it were ewritten the year after Rourkes Drift 

[John Cook]

But it were ewritten the year after Rourkes Drift 

Surely it was an analog version in 1880. 

[Heedless Horseman]

Quibbles! Zulu was always a favourite XMAS film! lol.
Couldn't be bothered with Zulu Dawn.
Reality of Rourkes drift quite a bit different, but who cares! 

[Gwydion]

But it were ewritten the year after Rourkes Drift 

Music published in 1794, (maybe from an earlier tune) first known lyrics printed 1830 (although there may be earlier versions as yet untraced).

There have been many lyrics attached to the tune (The ones in the film were written for the film apparently).

Commonly supposed initially to refer to the siege in the Wars of the Roses (invented by a nineteenth century Scotsmen).

[mollinary]

Commonly supposed initially to refer to the siege in the Wars of the Roses (invented by a nineteenth century Scotsmen).

I assume you mean the name 'Wars of the Roses' was invented by a 19th century Scotsman, rather than either the war itself or the siege! 

[Gwydion]

As we've entered the realm of counterfactual, post modern, ironic history - of wars, battles, musicology, literature and wargaming forums* - you decide!
(*and I suppose film)

[John Cook]

"Frankly my Dear, I don't give a damn".  Zulu is still my favourite war film of all time, since I first saw it 50 years ago.

[Gwydion]

Agreed. Mine too. My Dad took me to see it when it first came out and I must have seen it every time it was re-released on the cinema circuit for years after that.

[flamingpig0]

Zulu is certainly one of my favourite films; not least because  it has one of the best scores of all time.

[steve_holmes_11]

But it were ewritten the year after Rourkes Drift 

Published.

[John Cook]

Published.

Possibly, but if I remember correctly the first English language versions were published decades before the Zulu War.  I seem to remember that the lyrics in Zulu were written specially for the film.

[FierceKitty]

"Frankly my Dear, I don't give a damn".  Zulu is still my favourite war film of all time, since I first saw it 50 years ago.

Misquoted from Euripides. Jason's actual line was "Frankly, Medea, I don't give a damn."