Thanks for these variants! Here's one from BC, Canada, collected by Phil Thomas, from an anonymous telephone caller, c. 1965 in Victoria: We are the boys of the old Rainbow We are the boys to cut a shine We know our manners we spend our tanners We are respected wherever we go When we're marching down Esquimalt Road Doors and windows open wide We can dance and we can sing We can do the highland fling For we are the Rainbow boys Esquimalt Road leads to the Royal Canadian Navy base. The Rainbow was one half of the RCN c. 1915 Jon Bartlett
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