Corporal Clegg

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"Corporal Clegg"

Song by Pink Floyd
from the album A Saucerful of Secrets
Released	June 29, 1968 (UK) July 27, 1968 (US)
Recorded	3 January - February 1968 Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre	Psychedelic rock
Length	4:12
Writer(s)	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)

"Corporal Clegg" is a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets (1968). It was written by Roger Waters and features David Gilmour on guitar and lead vocals. This song also marks the vocal debut of drummer Nick Mason (in addition to speaking the line 'All right men, in you go!' Nick sang the 'He won it in the war...', 'in orange red and blue...', 'he's never been the same...' and from her majesty the queen...' lyrics); this was confirmed on the US rock radio program Rockline in 1992. (Interestingly, a contemporary lip-synched performance video of the song doesn't show those parts being sung.) David Gilmour also plays the kazoo on this song. The inventor of the kazoo was named Thaddeus von Clegg, which is perhaps why they chose to name the title character Clegg.

The song is about a soldier who lost his leg in World War II, and his apparently alcoholic wife. 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 in the Second World War.