BY JINGO!

In our last lesson we were looking at the naval arms race and the increasing tension between Great Britain and Germany.  The term "jingoism" was also discussed and how it was coined.  It came from a music-hall song from the 1870s and the word then acquired a life of its own as sometimes happens.  Here is some additional information courtesy of that cribber's digest Wikepedia!

The chorus of a song by G. H. MacDermott (singer) and G. W. Hunt (songwriter) commonly sung in British pubs and music halls around the time of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) gave birth to the term.^[2][3] The lyrics had the chorus:

We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do

We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too
We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true

The Russians shall not have Constantinople.

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