"SONS OF THE DIGGERS"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 277, 28 February 1941, Page 5

"SONS OF THE DIGGERS"

WHAKATANE COMPOSER'S SONG

COPIES NOW AVAILABLE

A marching song set to Foxtrot time will shortly be populat in'Whakatane as well as iri all other centres in the Dominion and the fact that it will probably gain special favour ia ■ . ;• -.•&£- tlse " this town -will £>e aiic ... that it is the work of a local resident, Mr Ernest Armstrong. The number which has just been released from the printers and is now available at Armstrong's Music Shop is entitled "Sons of the Diggers" and attractively; printed is AH outstanding composition, of which. Whakatanc can be proud. No doubt all music lovers will be familiar with the air before! loing, and will enjoy the appropriate and stirring words which are as follows: "This country of oursi is a hundred years old, As a nation were only a pup. But the breeding is there for it came from John Bull, The bulldog who never gives up. We will do all we can to give Hitler a crack, That will last him for ever Amen And what our fathers did before We can do again. Tho' war we abhor in the general \ way, We're just poor country lads when at home, . Now we've something to fight for— a heritage dear, For which anywhere proudly we'll roam, And if Egypt's sand and her flies we must eat . ' While we pray for a small drop of rain, Well, what our fathers did before as We can do again. Chorus. We swing along and sing a song, As though we own the ground wo tread on, Why shouldn't we for we are free And we love' the soil we're bred on We know we're light sq we will fight • For all that's staunch and true Then we'll come back and paint th.? >*• town red Yes, Red, White and Blue.