Happily Landed

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1923), artist

Dalziel Brothers, engravers

Fun (5 April 1873): 145

By Kind Permission of the L*ord Ch*mberli*in

Chorus: — “Slap Bang! Here we are again!”

Courtesy of the Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection in the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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Derek Scott, Professor of Critical Musicology at the University of Leeds and our editor for music and popular entertainment, explains that “Happily Landed” comes from the Great Vance's music-hall song "The School of Jolly Dogs" (lyrics and music by Henry Copeland, c. 1865) with the chorus "Slap, bang, here were are again, What jolly dogs are we."

Last modified 24 March 2016