| Cacique Caribe | 02 May 2011 6:26 a.m. PST |
Remember the LOTR movie scene of the Black Gate, when the Easterlings march in? YouTube link Am I the only one who expected them to be singing this tune? YouTube link Just wondering. Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 02 May 2011 6:31 a.m. PST |
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 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 02 May 2011 9:35 a.m. PST |
OH… the YO-He-HO Guards! I cannot watch them without pining for such figures. |
| Daffy Doug | 02 May 2011 10:37 a.m. PST |
I KNEW that was going to be the link before I even clicked on it…. |
| Lion in the Stars | 02 May 2011 11:07 a.m. PST |
I was expecting something like the Marines Hymn, but yes, I did expect to hear a marching song. Just trudging along sucks, cadence helps make it tolerable. |
 Parzival | 02 May 2011 11:18 a.m. PST |
Easterlings? How about "Here comes Peter Cottontail"? 
(Hey, they had the helmets for it.) |
| cloudcaptain | 02 May 2011 11:26 a.m. PST |
I am just sorry "Where there's a whip there's a way" didn't make it in… |
| 21eRegt | 02 May 2011 12:10 p.m. PST |
I used to hear it was, "All we own, we owe her"; or "Oh we love the old one"; and "Oh we loathe the old one." The screenplay shows that the correct lyrics are "O-Ee-Yah! Eoh-Ah!." Yeah, "Where there's a whip" is a classic. |
| The Beast Rampant | 02 May 2011 2:13 p.m. PST |
"All we own, we owe her" was how I always heard it. But I love "we loathe the old one". Great tune for thrall guards. "I am just sorry "Where there's a whip there's a way" didn't make it in…" Amen, brother! I So remember watching that the first time, on TV at my cousin's house. I still want Rankin/Bass goblin/orc miniatures. |
| Panzergeil | 02 May 2011 3:56 p.m. PST |
L. Frank Baum wrote the Wizard of Oz in the era of William Jennings Bryan and the Trust-Busting Progressive era. Oz refers to the abbreviation for ounce, and the great debates over a gold or bimetallic monetary standard. Other economic issues of the day included farmers overextending themselves with consumer credit to unscrupulous banks and merchants, hence all they owned, they owed back to the bank/merchant/railroad. It's "All we own, we owe," plain and simple. End of thread. |
| UK John | 03 May 2011 10:00 a.m. PST |
so thats where Tolkein got his inspiration from….. |
| Cacique Caribe | 03 May 2011 12:49 p.m. PST |
LOL. You guys were expecting the ones singing this? TMP link Dan |
| wizbangs | 06 May 2011 12:24 p.m. PST |
That's an awesome history lesson on the origin of that cadence. And yes, I too expected it. I suppose they chose not to go with it to avoid being accused of lacking Artistic originality. |
