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Harrow School - School Song |
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Forty years on, when afar and asunder |
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Parted are those who are singing today, |
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When you look back, and forgetfully wonder |
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What you were like in your work and your play, |
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Then, it may be, there will often come o'er you, |
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Glimpses of notes like the catch of a song - |
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Visions of boyhood shall float them before you, |
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Echoes of dreamland shall bear them along, |
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Chorus |
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Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! |
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Till the field ring again and again, |
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With the tramp of the twenty-two men. |
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Follow up! Follow up! |
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Routs and discomfitures, rushes and rallies, |
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Bases attempted, and rescued, and won, |
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Strife without anger, and art without malice, - |
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How will it seem to you, forty years on? |
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Then, you will say, not a feverish minute |
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Strained the weak heart and the wavering knee, |
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Never the battle raged hottest, but in it, |
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Neither the last nor the faintest, were we! |
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Chorus |
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Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! |
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Till the field ring again and again, |
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With the tramp of the twenty-two men. |
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Follow up! Follow up! |
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O the great days, in the distance enchanted, |
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Days of fresh air, in the rain and the sun, |
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How we rejoiced as we struggled and panted - |
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Hardly believable, forty years on! |
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How we discoursed of them, one with another, |
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Auguring triumph, or balancing fate, |
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Loved the ally with the heart of a brother, |
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Hated the foe with a playing at hate! |
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Chorus |
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Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! |
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Till the field ring again and again, |
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With the tramp of the twenty-two men. |
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Follow up! Follow up! |
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Forty years on, growing older and older, |
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Shorter in wind, as in memory long, |
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Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder, |
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What will it help you that once you were strong? |
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God give us bases to guard or beleaguer, |
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Games to play out, whether earnest or fun; |
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Fights for the fearless, and goals for the eager, |
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Twenty, and thirty, and forty years on! |
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Chorus |
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Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! |
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Till the field ring again and again, |
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With the tramp of the twenty-two men. |
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Follow up! Follow up! |
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(written for Sir Winston Churchill's ninetieth birthday and first sung 28th November 1964) |
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Blazoned in honour! For each generation |
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You kindled courage to stand and to stay; |
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You led our fathers to fight for the nation, |
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Called "Follow up" and yourself showed the way. |
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We who were born in the calm after thunder |
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Cherish our freedom to think and to do; |
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If in our turn we forgetfully wonder, |
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Yet we'll remember we owe it to you. |
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Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! |
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Till the field ring again and again, |
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With the tramp of the twenty-two men. |
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Follow up! Follow up! |
