Lyr Req: Regimental Songs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,JIM RACE
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 06:03 AM

Would dearly like to get complete lyrics of a song that goes...

I mind the time, my old chapeau, when once you graced my pate.
Hi ho, many a year ago, we rode along together, you and I, my old chapeau.
Faith, we turned the heads of half the pretty girls we used to know,
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.

I'm waiting now, my old chapeau, the call to bivouac,
Where every beggar answers roll, but ne'er a one comes back.
Then let this be my epitaph, where'er they lay me low:
Here lies a jolly light dragoon who loved his old chapeau.

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 07 - 09:37 AM

Hi
Came across this site by accident. Would love to have the words to "Bravo Dublin fusiliers" if you have them.
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Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: beardedbruce
Date: 15 May 07 - 09:43 AM

http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2005/Sep05/Empire_4768063.htm

Has it on the cd-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: CET
Date: 15 May 07 - 06:48 PM

Another song to add is "Vive la Canadienne", the Regimental Marchpast of the Royal 22e Regiment (the Vandoos) - a very good song, and much older than the regiment which was formed in World War I.

Edmund

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 18 May 07 - 03:12 PM

Although Great Big Sea has "poppie" overtones, they do a "Recruiting Sergeant", about the Newfoundland Regiment (then not yet "Royal") in the Great War. The lyrics follow:

Two recruiting sergeants came to the C.L.B.,
For the sons of the merchants, to join the 'Blue Puttees'.
So all the hands enlisted, five hundred young men --
Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me...

They crossed the broad Atlantic in the brave Florizel,
And on the sands of Suvla, they entered into hell
And on those bloody beaches, the first of them fell...
Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

CHORUS:
So it's over the mountains, and over the sea
Come, brave Newfoundlanders, and join the 'Blue Puttees';
You'll fight the Hun in Flanders, and at Galipoli
Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

The call came from London, for the last July drive
"To the trenches with the regiment, prepare yourselves to die"
The roll call next morning, just a handful survived.
Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.

CHORUS

The stone men on Water Street still cry for the day
When the pride of the city went marching away.
A thousand men slaughtered, to hear the King say,
'Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me.'

CHORUS (x2)

Enlist, ye Newfoundlanders, and come follow me

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 May 07 - 05:12 PM

I found a CD called 'Enlist for a soldier' which has a lot of songs about the army life on it, from the UK Civil War to present day.... If I ever find where I put it, I'll post an ISBN.

LTS

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 04:41 PM

The Prince of wales Own regiment of Yorkshire have for their march past My Bonny Yorkshire Lass which you can see and hear warbled somewhat shakily by me at www.yorkshirefolksong.net

Strange that The Watersons should refer to Sykes' Artillery Regiment. The Scarlet and the Blue was certainly sung by all of the Sykes Regiment as it was by all of the RHA regiments, but the Waterson version comes from the Yorkshire dales and is very different to the Sykes version. (They sing Khaki, Sykes sing Scarlet)

Both of the above-mentioned songs date to the 1870s apparently.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 02:20 AM

The regimental march of my [ now defunct ] regiment the 9/12 Royal Lancers was a tune called ' The Old Grey Mare ' this was OK until Hoover vacuums used it for a TV advert,

All the dirt, all the grit,
Hoover gets it every bit,
Cos it beats as it sweeps as it cleans.

this chorus would sometimes spontaneously break out as we marched to the band, wonderful.

eric

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 05:10 PM

eric,
There are hundreds of 'Old Grey Mares'. Could you please be more specific, i.e., give us text of first verse? The reason for my interest is not directly militarily related; it has been used as a tune for terrace chants in British football and rugby. I'm rather hoping we are looking at a trad song here which became a military march.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: The Walrus
Date: 02 Sep 08 - 10:03 PM

I seem to remember the 'Hoover' ad using the US Artillery march "The Caissons Go Rolling Along"

W

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: stormalong
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 02:20 AM

Colonel Burnaby - this is associated with the Blues and is also about the Camel Corps and Abu Klea.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 02:51 AM

Hi Steve, I believe there were words but I cant remember the ' official ' ones.

eric

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 01:58 PM

'Sussex by the Sea' is associated with the Royal Sussex Regiment and also with the Sussex Bonfire Societies. It is mostly about marching rather than about the county itself.

Valmai

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Les from Hull
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 03:26 PM

Actually Steve, they are now called the Yorkshire Regiment, and now incorporate the traditions of the Green Howards and the Duke of Wellington's. I suppose that amalgamations like this make the band's repertoire much larger.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 03:42 PM

If they've amalgamated, Les, I wonder what their official 'marchpast' is now 'My Bonny Yorkshire Wellingtons'?

Walrus.
Course it is. The question remains, did the football fans get it from the advert or from the playing of military marches by brass bands in the intervals.

I'm still intrigued by the reference to 'The Old Grey Mare'. As I said I know lots of 'Old Grey Mares' (No cheeky comments please) but none of them would fit to the Caissons tune.
The most obvious American OGM is 'The Old Grey mare she ain't what she used to be, many long years ago.'

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Les from Hull
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 03:43 PM

The 9/12th Lancers still exist as the 9/12th Lancers. It's an armoured recce regiment. According to information on the internet the quick march is 'God Bless the Prince of Wales' and the slow march is Men of Harlech. They also use the Keel Row, the Irish Washerwomen and Rory O'More.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Les from Hull
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 03:54 PM

The Regimental Quick March: "Ca Ira"
The Regimental Slow March: "The Duke of York"
1st Battalion Quick March: "Yorkshire Lass"
1st Battalion Slow March: "God Bless the Prince of Wales"
2nd Battalion Quick March: "Bonnie English Rose"
2nd Battalion Slow March: "Maria Theresa"
3rd Battalion Quick March: "The Wellesley"
3rd Battalion Slow March: "Destiny"
4th Battalion Quick March: "On Ilkley Moor"
4th Battalion Slow March: "The Duchess of Kent"

Perhaps we can write some words to Ca Ira incorporating 'Yorkshire Green Wellingtons'!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 02:17 AM

I stand corrected Les.

eric

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 02:22 AM

I think I may be getting the tunes mixed up as well, forty years on and a lot of booze...........well.

eric

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Les from Hull
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 08:22 AM

While on the subject of songs mentioning regiments the song 'Ups and Downs' that starts

As I was goin' to Aylesbury all on a market day
A pretty little Aylesbury girl I met upon the way

possibly refers to the 69th Regiment of Foot (South Lincolnshires) whose nickname was the 'Ups and Downs'. Or possibly it doesn't.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 02:07 PM

Les,
I thought it was all about taking drugs!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 08 Sep 08 - 04:44 PM

Does anyone know the english translation of the French Foreign Legion
March containing the legionaires code of honor known in English as Le Baroudeur

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,Carol Beasley
Date: 17 Jun 10 - 03:47 AM

When I was a little girl my Aunt sang a song that always made me cry. I'm in my 60's now and it still haunts me but I can't remember many of the words, so does any one out there know them please? It has these words in it.

Oh Lord it's only a Gloucester we send
To you this Gloucesters heart we send
He did not stay to realise that war was such a cruel thing
And now we lay him down to rest
Lord this Gloucester did his best

Hope someone can Help, kind regards Carol Beasley

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,stan nz
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 05:32 AM

The Green Howards {now 2nd batt. Yorkshire regt.} has a regimental march 'The Bonny English Rose' with words:-
Old England's emblem is the rose there is no other flower
Hath half the graces that adorn this beauty of the bower
And England's daughter's are as fair as any bud that blows
What son of hers who hath not loved some bonny English rose.

There is at least one more verse but memory fails me.
I learned it as a sixteen year old bandboy of the 1st batt. band in 1949 at the regimental depot Richmond, Yorkshire .

The word 'blows' is correct, it is old English and means the same as blooms

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,stan nz
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 05:48 AM

Re. ard mhacha account of the case of Pvt Patrick McCaffrey. He shot the two officers at Fulwood Barracks,Preston,Lancashire a barracks still in use today I think as depot for the Kings Regiment and there is a long tradition that McCaffrey ghost still haunts the place.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 06:04 AM

When I was in the Royal Army Service Corps, the regimental march was the tune of an 1850s Southern US parlor/minstrel song "Wait For The Wagon" ~~ it was said to have been a favourite tune of the Boer War General Sir Redvers Buller who originally formed the corps. The Corps no longer exists, having first been renamed the Royal Corps of Transport, and then amalgamated with several other support arms into the Royal Logistics Corps, whose march is called "On Parade".

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 08:08 AM

Hello Michael, My Dad wasin the RASC during the war. Once when home on leave he told me that 'Wait for the Wagon' was the regimental march. Being a young boy at the time I said something like 'it doesn't sound like a marching tune'. He marched me up and down the garden path, while we both sang the song , and I came to believe him.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 01 Aug 11 - 12:36 PM

I recollect from direct experience, burl, that it is indeed an excellent tune to march to. Marching to a band on a parade I remember as a delightfully stimulating experience, in fact; one of the few pleasures from the dismal days of training during Nat Svce.

Thanks for relating your experience of marching to the tune.

~M~

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,stan nz
Date: 18 Aug 11 - 07:43 PM

Further to my posting on the Green Howards regimental song, it is of course sung to the tune of the regimental march and anyone who wants to ally the words with the music can get the tune on the Green Howards Association web site.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,Murphy
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 07:27 AM

The Dublin Fusiliers as sung by Johnny McEvoy on Utube mentions Johnny Roche from Dolphins Barn and Willie Doyle, a priest from Dalkey both of whom died at Messin Ridge (or Messines Ridge). Are
these factual names or simply made up to suit the song?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,Christine Jordan
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 05:48 AM

Hi. I've come across a song written in 1915 by Charles Lee Williams, ex organist at Gloucester Cathedral. Lyrics by F Montagu Lloyd, called 'Roll Up Gloucesters!'
I cannot find the lyrics or the music. Does anyone have any more information. I think it may have been a song to rally the troops during WWI. Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: GUEST,Christine Jordan
Date: 02 Mar 17 - 05:58 AM

Not sure how these forums work but hope someone sees this message.
I am trying to find out more info about a song caled 'Roll Up Gloucesters!'. Music by Charles Lee Williams. Lyrics by F Montagu LLoyd. Written in 1915, probably about the Gloucestershire Regiment and a war rally for the troops. Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Hrothgar
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 06:28 AM

My father (a good Yorkshireman) served in the 16/5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, and they used to trot to that well-known loyalist air, "The Wearing of the Green".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Regimental Songs
From: Charmion
Date: 03 Mar 17 - 08:24 AM

Hi, Christine:

Could you tell us how you know about "Roll Up, Gloucesters!", including where you heard about it, how you know its composer and lyricist, and its date of publication? Those are very precise details to know about a song that you have never seen sheet music for, and your source of information might help the Mudcat Hive Mind come up with a lead for you.