This is the version I have been using for 25 years . . .thanks for jogging my memory! The Rout of the blues As I was a-walking on Salisbury Plain I heard such a fuss and to-do For the lassies were crying and tearing their hair For the rout had just come for the Blues The rout had just come for the Blues. Then each one home to their mothers did run Saying, "My heart is undone, it is true I'll pack up my clothes without more delay And boldly I'll march with the Blues And boldly I'll march with the Blues. The landlord and landlady walk hand in hand And so do they pretty girls, too And each of them poured out a bottle of gin To drink a success to the Blues To drink a success to the Blues. Our ship it is rigged and we all set sail How sweetly the French Horns played too And each one let out a loud huzzah "Success to King George and his Blues! "Success to King George and his Blues!"
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