Cheering up the tourists.

Whilst in Tiverton the other day I came across a busker performing outside Somerfield in the Shopping precict and being watched by a group of tourists obviously dodging the showers. The elderly busker, when I arrived on the scene was performing 'The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda' which was written by the Scottish folk singer, Eric Bogle and details the destruction of the Anzac \forces by the Turkish army at the battle of Gallipoli. Undoubtedly, 'The Band...' is probably one of the most moving songs about the futility of war ever written but I doubt if tourists dodging the showers on a wet afternoon in Tiverton would be the ideal audience for its message. Perhaps something a little more cheery would have been a bit better received and might have made the busker a bit more cash. There are times and places, as they say.