for the Spanish traditional song "Mambrú se fue a la guerra", see Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre
The English version shown below was written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the 19th Century.
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It is said that a French gentleman wishing, when in London, to be driven to Marlborough Street, had totally forgotten its name; but on humming the tune, the coachman drove him to the proper address with no other direction.
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In pop culture it is sung by Rasputine in Hugo Pratt's "The Golden House of Samarkand" Corto Maltese adventure, first issued in 1980 (French and Italian version).
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The song was performed sixteenth on the night, following Monaco's Françoise Hardy with "L'amour s'en va".