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Thread #31139 Message #2928050
Posted By: Bob Bolton
15-Jun-10 - 12:14 AM
Thread Name: Origins: who wrote the Woad Song?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: who wrote the Woad Song?
G'day Valmai,
If you go back about 30 posts (the late Malcom Douglas, February 2001) you will see: "that W. Hope Jones was a master at Eton, and wrote the song, c.1921, for the college's Boy Scout troop. ("Gilwell Camp Fire Song Book" and comments on the web.) ... quite a while before 1066 and All That!