A 1898 popular British march.
Words and music by Leslie Stuart.
Here we present two verses with a player piano roll accompaniment.
The sheet music suggested by Ross Boyle:
Accompaniment from a player piano roll:
Lyrics
- Britons once did loyally declaim
About the way we rul’d the waves
Ev’ry Briton’s song was just the same
When singing of our soldier braves
All the world had heard it
Wonder’d why we sang
And some have learn’d the reason why
But we’re forgetting it
And we’re letting it
Fade away and gradually die
Fade away and gradually die
So when we say that England’s master
Remember who has made her so
Refrain
It’s the soldiers of the Queen, my lads
Who’ve been, my lads, who’ve seen, my lads
In the fight for England’s glory, lads
When we have to show them what we mean
And when we say we’ve always won
And when they ask us how it’s done?
We’ll proudly point to ev’ryone of England’s
Soldiers of the Queen
- War clouds gather over ev’ry land
Our flag is threaten’d East and West
Nations that we’ve shaken by the hand
Our bold resources try to test
They thought they found us sleeping
Thought us unprepar’d
Because we have our party wars
But Englishmen unite
When they’re call’d to fight
The battle for Old England’s common cause
The battle for Old England’s common cause
So when we say that England’s master
Remember who has made her so
Sung here by Fred Feild: