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Thread #47060   Message #701103
Posted By: masato sakurai
30-Apr-02 - 09:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Handful of Laurel
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Handful of Laurel
A "Lock Hospital" version titled "The Trooper Cut Down" collected in Dorset is Stephen Sedley, The Seed of Love (Essex Music Limited, 1967, pp. 182-182). This version, which is on the page here with MIDI, has the refrain:

Then beat the drums slowly and play the pipes lowly
Sound the dead march as we carry him along
And over his coffin throw handfuls of laurel
For he's a young trooper cut down in his prime.

~Masato