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“Corporal Clegg”
Song by Pink Floyd
Album A Saucerful of Secrets
Released June 29, 1968 (UK)
July 27, 1968 (US)
Recorded February 1968
Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length 4:12
Writer Roger Waters
A Saucerful of Secrets track listing
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
(3)		 “Corporal Clegg”
(4)		 A Saucerful of Secrets
(5)


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The song is about a soldier who lost his leg in World War II, and his apparently alcoholic wife or mother (the ironic lyric is: "Mrs Clegg, you must be proud of him… another drop of gin?"). World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions Irony is a literary or Rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or Discordance between what one says or does and what one means or Gin is a spirit flavoured with Juniper berries. Distilled gin is made by redistilling white grain spirit which has been flavoured with juniper It is the first mention of war in a Pink Floyd song, something that would become a common theme in Roger Waters' lyrics, Roger having lost his father thus in 1944. War is an international relations Dispute, characterized by organized Violence between National Military units This can be seen as rather lighter in tone than the Floyd's later tackling of the subject, though, despite the heavy irony (Clegg "won" his wooden leg in the war!) and darkness behind the lyrics; indeed, among the cacophony of voices towards the end we hear an officer telling his one-legged man: "Clegg! Been meaning to speak to you. About that leg of yours! You're excused parade from now on!" and members of the band actually corpsing in the chorus. Corpsing is a British theatrical Slang term used to describe when an actor breaks character during a scene by laughing or by causing another Cast member

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