up and at ‘em boys he cried
play up! and play the game!
I’m going back to bed said I
and you should do the same
I have no time for fighting
the price is far too steep
so call me when it’s over
I’m going back to sleep
call me
Posted by sunovawot on April 29, 2012
http://sunovawot.com/2012/04/29/call-me/
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damommza
/ April 29, 2012LOLZ!!! When i first read it, i thought it was about a baseball game!! Very good!!
sunovawot
/ April 30, 2012Thank you. The line “play up! and play the game!” comes from a poem “Vitai Lampada” by Sir Henry Newbolt where it is used in terms of both sport and war.
http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/WWI/influences/vitai.html
damommza
/ April 30, 2012It also comes from The New York Yankees! “Play the Game” is in their TV commercial. Who knew they read Sir Newbolt!
sunovawot
/ April 30, 2012Just for my own amusement I checked, the poem was published in 1897, 4 years before the New York Yankees were formed, as the “Baltimore Orioles”, and 6 years before they moved to New York as the “New York Highlanders”, and 16 years before they became the “Yankees”
damommza
/ April 30, 2012