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Thread #174725 Message #4237352
Posted By: Robert B. Waltz
25-Mar-26 - 07:04 PM
Thread Name: Scottish kids' song on the Boer War
Subject: RE: Scottish kids' song on the Boer War
Ewan McVicar wrote, "Hold him down, you Swazi Warrior."
I hope the thread condemned it, given its attitudes. If the thread didn't say so, Josef Marais rewrote and softened it as "The Zulu Warrior." Which, astonishingly, seems to have made it to oral tradition in a small way; Averill's Camp Songs Folk Songs cites it several times, and Derek Piotr picked up a fragment.