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Thread #62217   Message #1004561
Posted By: red max
19-Aug-03 - 07:59 AM
Thread Name: Songs about the game of Cricket?
Subject: RE: Songs about the game of Cricket?
In Holroyd's Collection of Yorkshire Ballads there's "The Richmondshire Cricketers' Song" by William Swain. It was written in celebration of the visit of the All England cricketers to Richmond in 1857

Ye cricketers of Richmondshire
Just list to what I say
Don on your cricket toggery
For England comes today
Gird well your loins as on the course
You stand and plaudits meet
Prepare you for the tug of war
The race is to the fleet

Chorus
Then bowl away my jolly boys
With bias, break or spin
And show these noble champions
that Richmondshire can win

There are 5 more verses and a variation on the chorus. I'm afraid I don't know the tune