When I first listened to this song, I was struck with the impression of a soldier at war, made bitter by the weather, the war, and the relentless calls of a bird nesting near their camp. He and his fellow soldiers would gladly kill the annoying creature but it represents some form of hope or optimism in a place where there is none, so they let it be; without this horrible bird's song, no one would be singing.
This song may in part refer to Trench Fever, an unusual disease spread by lice among soldiers living in the squalor of the trenches in the Great War. The condition causes a sudden-onset of fever, severe headaches, giddiness, depression, exhaustion, pronounced muscular soreness & stiffness, and a characteristic shin pain often so severe that patients fell down. The Peacock to whom the title refers, could be Alexander David Peacock, an entomologist in the Royal Army Medical Corps who's research into the condition identified the cause and helped develop methods to control it's spread during the first World War.
When I first listened to this song, I was struck with the impression of a soldier at war, made bitter by the weather, the war, and the relentless calls of a bird nesting near their camp. He and his fellow soldiers would gladly kill the annoying creature but it represents some form of hope or optimism in a place where there is none, so they let it be; without this horrible bird's song, no one would be singing.
This song may in part refer to Trench Fever, an unusual disease spread by lice among soldiers living in the squalor of the trenches in the Great War. The condition causes a sudden-onset of fever, severe headaches, giddiness, depression, exhaustion, pronounced muscular soreness & stiffness, and a characteristic shin pain often so severe that patients fell down. The Peacock to whom the title refers, could be Alexander David Peacock, an entomologist in the Royal Army Medical Corps who's research into the condition identified the cause and helped develop methods to control it's spread during the first World War.
that's so beautiful
that's so beautiful