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Thread #7609   Message #1706828
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
30-Mar-06 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Eton Boating Song
Subject: RE: Lyr/Tune Req: Eton Boating Song
Didn't see this posted-

Lyrics: 1862, by William Johnson, a Master at Eton. Eight stanzas.
Music: 1863, by Algernon Drummond, a former student.
www.etoncollege.com/eton.asp?di=1359
Eton

Current abbreviated lyrics by William Cory and music at the website.

From verse 5 on, above, the English original lyrics may be:

5.
"Dreadnought" "Britannia" "Thetis",
"St. George" "Prince of Wales" and "Ten",
And the eight poor souls whose meat is,
Hard streak, and a harder hen,
But the end of our long boat fleet is,
Defiance to Westminster men.
(repeat last two lines)

6.
Rugby may be more clever,
Harrow may make more row,
But we'll row forever,
Steady from stroke to bow,
And nothing in life shall sever,
The chain that is round us now,
And nothing in life shall sever,
The chain that is round us now.

7.
Others will fill our places,
Dressed in the old light blue,
We'll recollect our races,
We'll to the flag be true,
And youth will be still in our faces,
When we cheer for an Eton crew,
And youth will be still in our faces,
When we cheer for an Eton crew.

Twenty years hence this weather,
May tempt us from office stools,
We may be slow on the feather,
And seem to the boys old fools,
But we'll still swing together,
And swear by the best of schools,
But we'll still swing together,
And swear by the best of schools.

Don't know if these are the original Wm. Johnson lyrics.

http://www.answers.com/topic/eton-boating-song

Still looking for the lyrics and music to "The School of Jolly Boys."