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Thread #51259 Message #784378
Posted By: GUEST,A Lurker
15-Sep-02 - 11:05 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Over the Hills and Far Away / O'er the...
Subject: RE: O'er the Hills
Can't find my book "Songs of the Civil War", so from unreliable memory - Liz, is the song you are referring to "The Rochester Recruiting Sergeant"? - the chorus starts 'who'll be a soldier' x 3 for Marlborough and me etc. If so, and yes the tune is Waltzing Matilda, it was written by Greg Butler of Strawhead! Great song.