I hunkered down and managed to put together most of the lyric myself. But I'm still missing a bit or few, and some of the words are likely wrong, so, if you were just able to come up with those bits, I would be ever so grateful, and there would be another song for the DT.

thanks

Here's what I've got:

The Old Songs by Bob Copper?
Oh you may moan with plaintive tone your gormless modern tune
But I will roar along the shore beneath a blood red moon
And songs that Nelson's sailors sang shall ring across the wave
And-a fifty-thousand sailor men will join the chorus brave
A chorus brave and tarry that ??save us of?? the sea
And-a fifty-thousand sailor men will rise to sing with me
The old songs, yes the old songs, that gave our fathers joy
The songs they sang till the welkin rang
When Nelson was a boy

Or in the dusty sunlit barn, a farmer's song I'll sing
A country rhyme to a rhythmic time, of flails do pump and swing
Full up and down the threshin' floor to win the golden grain
And-a fifty-thousand thresher men will join the bold refrain
A bold refrain and fearless that's springs from English soil
And-a fifty-thousand thresher men will join my song of toil

The old songs, yes the old songs, that gave our fathers joy
The songs they sang till the welkin rang
When Nelson was a boy

Or in the depths of cellar cool reclining for a bench
When I've dispersed an honest thirst that ale alone can quench
I will ???NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS??? in praise of barley brew
And a fifty-thousand drinking men will join the chorus true
A chorus true and hearty of hops and barley malt
And a fifty-thousand drinking men will prove they're worth their salt

The old songs, yes the old songs, that gave our fathers joy
The songs they sang till the welkin rang
When Nelson was a boy

They will echo onward down the years and never, ever fade
For fifty-thousand singing men will never be afraid
For to raise their lusty voices, their spirits to revive
And tell to all eterni-tie "we're glad that we're alive"
^^