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Thread #41194   Message #3264638
Posted By: GUEST,Guest. L.Walker
28-Nov-11 - 05:44 AM
Thread Name: ADD: The Baby's Name (Murphy/Hall)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: The Baby's Name (Murphy/Hall)
I decided to look on Google for correct words to The Baby's Name and was delighted to find all this information.
Like many of you I was taught this song (phonetically) by my paternal grandmother before I went to school; this would be 1941 or 1942. It is only in recent years that I realised the names referred to military leaders.
My remembered version of the last lines is:-

Cape Town Mafeking French
King of the Ladysmith Bobbs
Union Jack and Fighting Mac
Lion Victoria Bobbs.

Happy Memories and Thank you all for the information.