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Thread #47907   Message #719189
Posted By: Jon Bartlett
28-May-02 - 10:35 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
The 72nd Light Infantry in BC generated an anti-song, made by coalminers in Nanaimo to take the piss out of the poor stoops who were coming to defend the rights of capital: "Bowser's Seventy-Twa". Bowser was the Attorney-General at the time (1913-14). I don't remember if I posted it to DT.

"The Glen Whorple Highlanders", the regimental song of the Seaforth Highlanders: first verse as follows:

"There's a braw fine regiment as ilka man should ken/They're devils at the fechtin', they hae cloured a sicht o' men/And hae supped muckle whisky when the canteen they were ben/The hielandmen frae braw Glenwhorple."

Chorus: "Heuch Glenwhorple Hielandmen/Great strong whisky-drinkin' Hielandmen/Slainte wor Glenwhorple."

Seven verses in all. Which I'll post if people want it.