Eton Boating Song-Honley Male Voice Choir

[00:11.59]Jolly boating weather [00:15.17]And a hay harvest breeze [00:18.87]Blade on the feather [00:22.57]Shade off the trees [00:26.58]Swing swing together [00:29.84]With your bodies between your knees [00:34.18]Swing swing together [00:37.15]With your bodies between your knees [00:45.80]Skirting past the rushes [00:49.74]Ruffling over the weeds [00:53.51]Where the lock stream gushes [00:57.40]Where the cygnet feeds [01:00.86]Let us see how the wine glass flushes [01:04.89]At supper on boveney meads [01:08.59]Let us see how the wine glass flushes [01:12.95]At supper on Boveney meads [01:16.33] [01:24.82]Rugby may be more clever [01:28.71]Harrow may make more row [01:32.56]But we'll row for ever [01:36.39]Steady from stroke to bow [01:40.21]And nothing in life shall sever [01:44.20]The chain that is round us now [01:48.17]And nothing in life shall sever [01:52.38]The chain that is round us now [01:58.86]Others will fill our places [02:02.40]Dressed in the old light blue [02:06.38]We'll recollect our races [02:10.33]We'll to the flag be true [02:14.05]And youth will be still in our faces [02:17.83]When we cheer for an eton crew [02:21.73]And youth will be still in our faces [02:26.28]When we cheer for an eton crew [02:30.34]Twenty years hence this weather [02:33.86]May tempt us from office stools [02:38.09]We may be slow on the feather [02:41.75]And seem to the boys old fools [02:45.54]But we'll still swing together [02:49.92]And swear by the best of schools [02:53.43]But we'll still swing together [02:57.83]And swear by the best of schools [03:04.28]Best of schools