The Cannon Song
The Fowler Brothers & Stan Ridgway * Track #3 On Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
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Album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
- #1Intro from Mahagonny Songspiel
Steve Weisberg
- #2The Ballad of Mack the Knife
Sting & Dominic Muldowney
- #3The Cannon Song
The Fowler Brothers & Stan Ridgway
- #4Ballad of the Soldier’s Wife
Marianne Faithfull & Chris Spedding
- #5Johnny Johnson Medley: Overture/Johnny’s Melody/Aggie’s Sewing Machine
Van Dyke Parks & Kathy Dalton
- #6The Great Hall
Henry Threadgill
- #7Alabama Song
Ralph Schuckett & Richard Butler
- #8Youkali Tango
Armadillo String Quartet
- #9Der kleine Leutnant des lieben Gottes (The Little Lieutenant of the Loving God)
John Zorn
- #10Johnny’s Speech
Van Dyke Parks
- #11September Song
Lou Reed
- #12Lost in the Stars
Carla Bley & Phil Woods
- #13
What Keeps Mankind AliveTom Waits
- #14Surabaya Johnny
Dagmar Krause
- #15Hurricane Introduction
Mark Bingham
- #16Oh Heavenly Salvation
Mark Bingham & Aaron Neville & Johnny Adams
- #17Call from the Grave/Ballad in Which Macheath Begs All Men for Forgiveness
Todd Rundgren
- #18Speak Low
Charlie Haden & Sharon Freeman
- #19In No Man’s Land
Van Dyke Parks
The Cannon Song by The Fowler Brothers (Ft. Stan Ridgway)
Performed by
The Fowler BrothersStan RidgwayProduced by
Hal Willner & Paul M. YoungWrited by
Bertolt Brecht & Kurt WeillThe Cannon Song Lyrics
John was all present and Jim was all there
And Georgie was up for promotion
Not that the Army gave a bugger who they were
When confronting some heathen commotion
The troops live under
The cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar
Moving from place to place
When they come face to face
With a different breed of fellow
Whose skins are black or yellow
They quick as winking chop him into
Beefsteak tartar
Johnny found his whiskey too warm
And Jimmy found the weather too balmy
But Georgie took them both by the arm
And said "Don't ever disappoint the army!"
The troops live under
The cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar
Moving from place to place
When they come face to face
With a different breed of fellow
Whose skins are black or yellow
They quick as winking chop him into
Beefsteak tartar
John is a write-off and Jimmy is dead
And Georgie was shot for looting
And young men's blood goes on being red
And the army still goes on ahead recruiting
The troops live under
The cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar
Moving from place to place
When they come face to face
With a different breed of fellow
Whose skins are black or yellow
They quick as winking chop him into
Beefsteak tartar
The Cannon Song Q&A
Who wrote The Cannon Song's ?
The Cannon Song was written by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill.
Who produced The Cannon Song's ?
The Cannon Song was produced by Hal Willner & Paul M. Young.