The Soldiers Of The King - 1914

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia - 14 Mar 2002

Britons always loyally declaim
About the way we rule the waves
Ev'ry Briton's song is just the same,
When singing of our soldier braves.
All the world has heard it
wonders why we sing
And some have learn'd the reason why
We're not forgetting it,
We're not letting it
Fade away or gradually die,
Fade away or gradually die.
So when we say that England's master,
Remember who has made her so.

It's the Soldiers of the King my lads,
Who've been my lads,
Who're seen my lads,
In the fight for England's glory, lads
Of its worldwide glory let us sing
And when we say we've always won,
And when they ask us how it's done,
We'll proudly point to ev'ry one
Of England's soldiers of the King!

It's the Soldiers of the King my lads,
Who've been my lads,
Who're seen my lads,
In the fight for England's glory, lads
Of its worldwide glory let us sing
And when we say we've always won,
And when they ask us how it's done,
We'll proudly point to ev'ry one
Of England's soldiers of the King!

War clouds gather over ev'ry land,
Our treaties threaten'd east and west
Nations that we've shaken by the hand
Our honor'd pledges try to test
They may have thought us sleeping
thought us unprepared,
Because we have our party wars
But Britons all unite
When they're call'd to fight
The battle for Old England's common cause,
The battle for Old England's common cause,
So when we say that England's master,
Remember who has made her so.

It's the Soldiers of the King my lads,
Who've been my lads,
Who're seen my lads,
In the fight for England's glory, lads
Of its worldwide glory let us sing
And when we say we've always won,
And when they ask us how it's done,
We'll proudly point to ev'ry one
Of England's soldiers of the King!

When we're rous'd we buckle on our swords,
We've done with diplomatic lingo,
We do deeds to follow on our words,
We show we're something more than jingo.
And tho' Old England's laws
do not her sons compel
To military duties do,
We'll play them at their game
And show them all the same
An Englishman can be a soldier too,
An Englishman can be a soldier too,
So when we say that England's master,
Remember who has made her so.

It's the Soldiers of the King my lads,
Who've been my lads,
Who're seen my lads,
In the fight for England's glory, lads
Of its worldwide glory let us sing
And when we say we've always won,
And when they ask us how it's done,
We'll proudly point to ev'ry one
Of England's soldiers of the King!

Soft karaoke
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Lyric Line
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The Soldiers Of The King 1914
by Leslie Stuart
historically known as
'The Soldiers Of The Queen'
'The English Marseillaise'
copyright MCMXIV by Francis, Day and Hunter
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Wednesday 13 March 2002 at 23.48
in association with Doug Grierson
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