The Recruiting Serjeant
... that the 1770 burletta The Recruiting Serjeant has a sergeant cheerily describing the sight of "heads, and limbs, and bullets flying" during battle (song, right) to a potential army recruit?
... that the 1770 <a href="./Burletta" id="mwFzk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Burletta">burletta</a> <i id="mwFzo"><b id="mwFzs"><a href="./The_Recruiting_Serjeant" id="mwFzw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Recruiting Serjeant">The Recruiting Serjeant</a></b></i> has a sergeant cheerily describing the sight of "heads, and limbs, and bullets flying" during battle <i id="mwFz0">(song, right)</i> to a potential army recruit?