Here's Adieu to Old England

DESCRIPTION: The singer is leaving parents and sisters and "London city where I took great delight" to join the convoys; "with our twenty-six pounders we will fight blow for blow" and "never will yield"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Peacock)
KEYWORDS: navy war separation nonballad patriotic
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Peacock, pp. 1002-1003, "Here's Adieu to Old England" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9941
RECORDINGS:
Freeman Bennett, "Here's Adieu to Old England" (on PeacockCDROM) [one verse only]
File: Pea1002

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