LOCAL COMPOSER
NEW SONG RELEASED
"UP GUARDS AND AT 'EM"
The composer of the popular marching song "Sons of the Diggers" has produce.l a further composition dedicated; to the Home Guard. This song should capture popular imagination in the same striking manner as did its forerunner. It is called "Up Guards and at. f Em"' and has a characteristic vigour and swing which must make wide appeal. Copies are now on sale at Arm-: strong's and Ave join in extending our congratulations to the Whakatane composer. The words are as under:— "Up Guards and At 'Em" Ist Verse j
Our lads have gone again to war, Tiia vct'rans left behind, The old war horse would light agaii: But years are not too kind A job of work can still he done, Invaders threat repel, -Should he be game to take us on In pieces hira expell. Chorus So up guards and at 'em, Up guards and at 'em. Is the song we sing marching along I 4 or this is our land New Zealand. No one can take il, ll' they try we'll soon put them wrong What Wellington said years ago Our motto still can be. Now hollow squares are out of date Tanks are our cavalry. So up Guards and at 'em, Up Guards and at 'cm And we'll win to victory! 2nd Verse From North Cape to the Bluff we watch From rise of sun till set Give us a chance to use our guns' And Ave will malke him sweat. The Maori with the Pakeha A joint Home Guard; will keep Till once again in peace at last. God's country then may sleep. Chorus
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 4, 14 September 1942, Page 4
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278LOCAL COMPOSER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 4, 14 September 1942, Page 4
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