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Thread #162848   Message #3878773
Posted By: GUEST,threelegsoman
26-Sep-17 - 06:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Border Boys Kept Coming (David Scott)
Subject: Lyr Req: Border Boys Kept Coming
I would like help in filling in the lyrics to this song. I have not been able to find them anywhere, but have worked out some from a video of the song on YouTube but cannot hear clearly enough part of verse 4 and the last line of the spoken verse 5:

Border Boys Kept Coming

Chorus 1:

Off they marched their spirits high
Tears in their eyes as they waved goobye.
They'd no idea if they'd live or die
But the Border Boys kept comin'.

Verse 1:

Where on earth's the Dardanelles?
It's no a place we know right well,
It's itchin' for a fight an' there's gonna be hell
For the Border Boys are comin'.

chorus 2:

Off they marched their spirits high
Tears in their eyes as they waved goobye.
They'd no idea if they'd live or die
For the Border Boys kept comin'.

Verse 2:

They mustered them away so the brave men go
What went through their minds we shall never know
Fathers, sons and brothers in the very first row,
And the Border Boys kept comin'.

Verse 3:

They marched in a line along the river bed
The far away sands would be sown blood red
Five hundred dead in twenty minutes it's said
Yet the Border Boys kept comin'.

Chorus 1 (x2):

Verse 4:

.......... sleep within our grave
What a hellish way to treat the brave,
We'll remember your names and the memory's safe
How the Border Boys kept comin'.

Verse 5 (Spoken):

They signed up in their thousands, the very first
They put them into boats and sailed them o'er the sea
The gallant men of the K O S B
The men who led the charge at Gallipoli
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