LOCAL SONG. New South Wales Contingent.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 97, 11 April 1885, Page 7

LOCAL SONG. New South Wales Contingent.

(Composed by Mr ,T. Comes, and sung by him at the Public Library.. Concert on Monday evening" lust.)

Old England, she's in trouble With the Mahdi and the Czar, Ami if they keep provoking het Tney are sure to get ajv; The Bear she grasps at India, And gra*p she may in vain. But they'll ne'er dethrone our Empress While a Briton does r«mnin> Yet all out ardour dwindles, And our loyalty it pales, Before that grand contingent Of «o«r -bister, New South Wales. Our noble General Gordon, Bfitania's greatest man, T Ofjnell those troticheroim Arabs, How bravely he did stand ; How well he fought for Egypt, The poor he clothed and fed, And for such grand heroic deeds, His great life's blood was shed. But whilst we mourn his tragic fate, They're on the Arabs trail, That gallant little battery, The sons of New South Wales. We'll «»ark their <deeds;of bravery, Their actions tell with pride, And fain we wonld be with them All fighting side by side, Lord Wolesley he may well be proud Of such a gallant lot, With truer hearts or braver men I'm sure he never fought ; And General Graham at Suakim, With pride the army hails, The gal lent little buttery -•f our sister, New South Wales. How we envy our big sister In her patriotic deed. She showed all other colonies The way to take the lend ; They'll soon subdue the Arabs, And the Prophet Mahdi's tricks, They'll avenge the Gordon murder, And the massacre of Hicks. Then home they'll come with glory, And Heaven guide the gales That brings those hero's back again, The sons of New South Wales.