It's A Long Way To Tipperary
"It's A Long To Tipperary" is a music hall and marching song written by Jack Judge and Harry Williams in 1912. The well known chorus is:
- It's a long way to Tipperary,
- It's a long way to go.
- It's a long way to Tipperary
- To the sweetest girl I know!
- Goodbye Piccadilly,
- Farewell Leicester Square!
- It's a long long way to Tipperary,
- But my heart's right there.
It 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.
It was featured as one of the songs in the musical Oh! What a Lovely War.