Fiddler's Green

Fiddler's Green is a legendary imagined afterlife, where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire. Its origins are obscure, although some point to the Greek myth of the "Elysian Fields" as a potential inspiration.

According the Oxford Companian to Ships and the Sea, Fiddler's Green was a sailor's paradise where public houses, dance halls, and other similar amusements are plentiful and the ladies are accommodating; it was a sailor's heaven.A sailor who had died, and was known to have enjoyed such pleasures in his life, was often said to have gone aloft to Fiddler's Green.

During the 1800s, sailors kept Fiddler's Green alive in their folklore. However, in 1923, the story of Fiddler's Green was published in Cavalry Journal.  Since that time it continues to be used today by modern cavalry units to memorialize the deceased.

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