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Thread #162848   Message #3878909
Posted By: GUEST
26-Sep-17 - 10:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Border Boys Kept Coming (David Scott)
Subject: Lyr Add: BORDER BOYS KEPT COMING (David Scott)
On YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ffqbIp98DQ

Lyrics as found here:
https://www.facebook.com/airchieoliver/posts/820486068071079

(From about 1/4 down the page)"Davey Scott frae Duns whae's written a song ti commemorate the heroism o a' oor Border boys..."

"BORDER BOYS KEPT COMING" by David Scott

Off they marched their spirits high
A tear in their eye as they waved goodbye
They'd no idea if they'd live or die
But the Border boys kept coming

Where on earth's the Dardanelles
It's no a place we know right well
Turks are itchin for a fight
And there's gaun ti be hell
For the Border boys are coming

They mustered in a place only brave men go
What went through their minds we will never know
Fathers, sons and brothers in the very front row
When the Border boys kept coming

They marched in a line along a river bed
The far away sands would be soaked blood red
Five hundred dead in twenty ninutes they said
Yet the Border boys kept coming

Not all our dead sleep within a grave.
What a hellish way to treat the brave
We remember your names and the memory save
Of how the Border boys kept coming

They signed up in their thousands at the very first plea,
They put them into boats, sailed them over the sea,
The gallant fighting men of the KOSB
The men who led the charge at Gallipoli
Whose souls soar o'er the sands of Gallipoli.

Off they marched their spirits high
A tear in their eye as they waved goodbye
They'd no idea if they'd live or die
But the Border boys kept coming.