Soldiers of the Queen, The

DESCRIPTION: "Britons once did loyalty declaim About the way we ruled the waves Every Briton's song was just the same When singing of our soldier-braves." "It's the soldiers of the Queen, my lads Who've been my lads... In the fight for England's glory, lads"
AUTHOR: Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) (source: Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, Winstock-SongsAndMusicOfTheRedcoats)
EARLIEST DATE: 1891 (source: Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood)
KEYWORDS: soldier war royalty
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Kane-SongsAndSayingsOfAnUlsterChildhood, p. 165, "We're soldiers of the Queen, m'lads" (1 text)
Winstock-SongsAndMusicOfTheRedcoats, pp. 253-255, "Soldiers of the Queen" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Aline Waites & Robin Hunter, _The Illustrated Victorian Songbook_, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1984, pp. 189-192, "The Soldiers of the Queen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #37294
NOTES [90 words]: Waites & Hunter say that Leslie Stuart was born Thomas Augustine Barrett in Lancashire and became a professional organist at the age of just 15. He composed both religious and secular music. He was persuaded to become a pop composer and move to London, where he adopted the name "Leslie Stuart." Very successful in his early years, they say that he never learned to syncopate his music, and fell out of favor. Certainly I haven't noticed anything else he ever wrote.
Said to have been made popular by Hayden Coffin" (1862-1935) in 1895. - RBW
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