Long way to Tipperary - Tipperary Ireland
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N 52° 28.188 W 008° 10.416
29U E 556136 N 5813613
A British marching song written in 1912.
Waymark Code: WM5WA4
Location: Munster, Ireland
Date Posted: 02/19/2009
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"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" is a British music hall and marching song written by Jack Judge and Harry Williams (Henry James Williams), a song that, allegedly, was written for a 5 shilling bet in Stalybridge, on the 30 January 1912 and performed the next night at the local music hall. Judge's parents were Irish, and his grandparents came from Tipperary.[1] The song was popularised by the Connaught Rangers as they marched through Boulogne on 13 August 1914, witnessed by Daily Mail correspondent George Curnock, and reported on 18 August 1914. It was then picked up by other soldiers in the British Army. In November 1914 it was recorded by John McCormack, which helped contribute to its world-wide popularity.[2]
In 1917, a Miss Alice Smyth Burton Jay sued song publishers Chapell & Co. for $100,000, alleging that the original music was written by her in 1908, for a song played at the Alaska-Yukon Fair promoting the Washington apple industry. The chorus began "I'm on my way to Yakima."[3] The court selected Victor Herbert to act as expert advisor[4] and, in 1920, dismissed the suit, based on evidence that the authors of Tipperary had never been in Seattle, and on testimony from Victor Herbert that the two songs were not so similar as to suggest piracy.[5]