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Thread #7609   Message #46150
Posted By: Pete M
19-Nov-98 - 03:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Req: Eton Boating Song
Subject: ADD: Eton Rowing Boat Song
Hi Jane,

Words follow:

Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees;
Swing, swing together,
With your bodies between your knees.

Rugby may be more clever,
Harrow may make more row:
But we'll row forever,
Steady from stroke to bow,
And nothing in life shall sever
The chain that is round us now.

Others will fill our places,
Dressed in the old light blue;
We'll recollect our races,
We'll to the flag be true;
And youth will be still in our faces
When we cheer for an Eton crew.

Twenty years hence this weather
May tempt us from office stools:
We may be slow on the feather,
And seem to the boys old fools:
But we'll still swing together,
And swear by the best of schools.

If you go here you can hear it sung by the college choir. Note that the lyrics given on that page differ in two places to those sung, and which are given above.

Pete M