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"Stop the Cavalry" is a song written and performed by the English musician Jona Lewie.
The song peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart in December 1980…Lewie said that the song was never intended as a Christmas hit, and that it was a protest song. [However] The line 'Wish I was at home for Christmas' as well as the brass band arrangements made it an appropriately styled song to play around Christmas time.
The song's promotional video is set in the trenches of the First World War. The lyrics of the song mention cavalry and Churchill (who served as the First Lord of the Admiralty in the first year of the war, prior to serving in the trenches himself), however it breaks with the First World War theme with references to nuclear fallout and the line "I have had to fight, almost every night, down throughout these centuries". Lewie described the song's soldier as being "a bit like the eternal soldier at the Arc de Triomphe".
The song's melody is loosely based on a theme from Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 by Hugo Alfvén and its major musical elements bear a resemblance to Mozart's Rondo in D Major, K382. x
Dub a dub a dum dum
Dub a dub a dum
Dub a dum dum dub a dub
Dub a dub a dum
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's been waiting two years long
More of a brass band hit with military marches than a purely Christmas song. Enjoy!
