Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — “The Gang’s All Here.” [ARTICLE]

“The Gang’s All Here.”

Is there anyone who hasn’t sung “Hail, Hall, the Gang’s All Here?” Of course we are all certain that it is an American song with an American tune. But it is not. Upon the recent occasion of the president’s visit to France a chorus of Breton children, led by an American soldier, sang this “classic.” Then attention was called to the fact that Gilbert and Sullivan, who wrote so many comic operas a few years ago, had composed it. The melody was composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan for the “Pirates of Penzance,” and W. S- Gilbert wrote not these words but others beginning “Come, Friends Who Plough the Sea.”