Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry • TopPop

Опубликовано 24 декабря 2019, 17:00

'Stop The Cavalry' is a song written and performed by Jona Lewie. In December 1980 the single reached third place in the UK Singles Chart. In the Netherlands, the top spot was number 9 in the Dutch Top 40 and number 6 in the Nationale Hit Parade. The number appears regularly in various end-of-year and Christmas hit lists.

Nowadays the song is mainly seen as Christmas hit, but was not composed for that purpose. It is actually a protest song against wars. It contains only one line with a reference to Christmas: 'Wish I was at home for Christmas'.
This video was recorded by TopPop and broadcast during the Christmas edition of 26 December 1980.

Hey, Mr. Churchill comes over here
To say we're doing splendidly
But it's very cold out here in the snow
Marching to win from the enemy
Oh I say it's tough, I have had enough
Can you stop the cavalry?

I have had to fight, almost every night
Down throughout these centuries
That is when I say, oh yes yet again
Can you stop the cavalry?
Mary Bradley waits at home
In the nuclear fall-out zone
Wish I could be dancing now
In the arms of the girl I love

Wish I was at home for Christmas

Bang! That's another bomb on another town
While Luzar and Jim have tea
If I get home, live to tell the tale
I'll run for all presidencies
If I get elected I'll stop, I will stop the cavalry

Wish I was at home for Christmas

Wish I could be dancing now
In the arms of the girl I love
Mary Bradley waits at home
She has been waiting two years long
Wish I was at home for Christmas

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Broadcast date: 1980-12-26

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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
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