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Thread #51635   Message #1285367
Posted By: Lighter
30-Sep-04 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Rolling Home to Dear Old England
Subject: ADD Version: ROLLING HOME
Here is the version sung in 1939 by Captain Leighton Robinson and others, as referred to in a post above:

Rolling Home

Pipe all hand to man the windlass,
See our cable run down clear;
As we heave away our anchor,
For old England's shores we'll steer.

CHORUS:

       Rolling home! Rolling home!
       Rolling home across the sea!
       Rolling home to Merry England!
       Rolling home, dear land, to thee

Man your bars! Heave with a will, lads!
Every hand that can, clap on!
As we heave away our anchor,
We will sing this well known song.

Fare you well, Australia's daughters,
Fare you well, sweet foreign shore!
For we're bound across the waters,
Homeward bound again once more!

Up aloft amongst the rigging,
Where the stormy winds do blow -
Oh, the waves, as they rush past us,
Seem to murmur as they go.

Twice ten thousand miles behind us,
Twice ten thousand miles we've gone,
Oh, the girls in dear old England
Gaily call us way [sic] along.


(The logic, if not the sentiment, in stanza 4 is dubious.)