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Thread #82430 Message #1510604
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
26-Jun-05 - 08:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Songs for Trafalgar Night
Subject: Lyr Add: "We be the King's men, hale and hearty...
Searched, and found this in 'The Dynasts' (Thomas Hardy) although I am sure I recall longer version from school.
I realise it's not Nelson, but the cause of battle is much the same!
Nigel
We be the King's men, hale and hearty,
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
If he won't sail, lest the wind should blow,
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol!
We be the King's men, hale and hearty,
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
If he be sea-sick, says "No, no!"
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol!
The above is as found on the net.
I remember learning it in school as:
We be the King's men, hale and hearty, - oh.
We be the King's men, hale and hearty,
Marching to meet one Buonaparty;
If he be sea-sick, says "No, no!"
We shall have marched for nothing, O!
Right fol-lol-lol-o!
Right fol-lol-lol-o!
Right fol-lol-lol-o!
Right fol-lol-lol-o!
Same war, but land based, not a sea battle.
Cheers
Nigel