Stop The Cavalry
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"Stop The Cavalry" is a song written and performed by the musician, Jona Lewie.
The song peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart in December 1980, at one point only being kept from number one by two re-issues by the then recently-murdered John Lennon.
The song was never intended as a Christmas hit, but 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 appears to be set at the front during a war in which the UK participated, although references to Winston Churchill, the Russian Tsars and a "nuclear fallout zone" [1] mean that its exact chronology is uncertain. Lewie himself has desribed the song's protagonist as being "a bit like the eternal soldier at the Arc de Triomphe" [2] - in other words, representing all soldiers in all wars (as evidenced by the line "I have had to fight, almost every night, down throughout these centuries") rather than any specific conflict. Although the music video is set in the trenches of the First World War.
