Affixed to the original urn…..
When Ivo goes back with the urn, the urn;
Studds, Steel, Read and Tylcote return, return.
The welkin will ring loud
The great crowd will feel proud
Seeing Barlow & Bates with the urn, the urn
And the rest coming home with the urn
the urn, the urn, the urn
I’ve added an extra line in italics since [...]
Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child
By by, lully lullay
O sisters too, how may we do
for to preserve this day
this poor youngling for whom we do sing
by by, lully lullay
Herod the king in his raging
charged he hath this day
His men of might in his own sight
all young children to slay
That woe is me, poor child for [...]
When this Ashes Test is over
No more joy or misery
Let’s shake hands with erstwhile strangers
We’ll cherish present company
No more pints of polite clapping
No more shouting out for more
Shake hands with those beside you
They’re your neighbours from next door
Sung with great feeling and Welsh choralness
A modification of the lyrics of When This Lousy War is Over, from [...]
