#1196 - The Soldiers of the King

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• Composer:
  • Leslie Stuart (1863–1928), 1894
• Also known as:
  • The Soldiers of the Queen
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• Incipit: 56175643
• Condensed Incipit: 56175643
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• Instrumental
• Lyrics:
  Britons always loyally declaim, about the way we rule the waves.
  Every Briton's song is just the same, when singing of our soldiers brave
  All the world has heard it, wonders why we sing, and some have learned 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.
  
  chorus:
  It's the soldiers of the King, my lads,
  Who've been, my lads, who've seen, my lads,
  In the fight for England's glory, lads,
  Of its world wide 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 every one
  Of England's soldiers of the King.
  
  War clouds gather over every land, our treaties threatened east and west.
  Nations that we've shaken by the hand, our honoured 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 called to fight
  The battle for old England's cause; the battle for old England's cause.
  So when we say that England's master, remember who has made her so.
  
  When we're roused we buckle on our swords, we've done with diplomatic lingo.
  We do deeds to follow our words, we show we're something more than jingo
  The sons of merry England answered duty's call, and military duties do,
  And though new at the game, they 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.
  
  
  • Leslie Stuart (1863–1928), 1895¹⁾