Sorry I can`t be much help. Sarie Maris is one of the march pasts of the Royal Marines. After a long stretch with a rifle over the shoulder on parade [I was RN] it was a relief to march off with Hearts of Oak, followed by A life on the Ocean Wave and then off the parade ground came Sarie Maris when we sung the Forty thousand springboks bit. Trouble was that was the only words any one knew.