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Thread #47907   Message #3199536
Posted By: GUEST,stan nz
01-Aug-11 - 05:32 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
The Green Howards {now 2nd batt. Yorkshire regt.} has a regimental march 'The Bonny English Rose' with words:-
Old England's emblem is the rose there is no other flower
Hath half the graces that adorn this beauty of the bower
And England's daughter's are as fair as any bud that blows
What son of hers who hath not loved some bonny English rose.

There is at least one more verse but memory fails me.
I learned it as a sixteen year old bandboy of the 1st batt. band in 1949 at the regimental depot Richmond, Yorkshire .

The word 'blows' is correct, it is old English and means the same as blooms