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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
25-May-09 - 06:22 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Sebastopol
Subject: RE: Origins: Sebastopol
An English song sheet of 1855, tune "Cheer, Boys, Cheer."

"Capture and Destruction of Sebastopol."
1
Cheer lads, cheer! the enemy is quaking,
Chewer boys, cheer, our foes we did defeat,
Cheer lads, cheer, Sebastopol is taken,
Cheer boys, cheer, see the Russians now are beat
On the ...... day of September, the allied guns did rattle,
We ever shall remember that great & glorious day
When valorous and courageous on the field of battle
They fought the boastful Russians and made them run away.

Cheer lads, &c.
(more verses)

Firth b.26(215), Ballads Catalogue, Bodleian Collection, A. Ryal & Co., London.
Ryal also printed variants, "Cheer Girls, Cheer, for Our Merry Wedding Day," etc.