The School Song
A Memory of Braintree.
1. with Hearts close knit in comradeship, your lusty voices tune to praise:
And welcome him [& presumably her] with steadfast grip who speaks of school and happy days.
2. [in minor key] For whom shall every voice be still, in silent homage to the brave?
For those who stormed the tyrant's hill, and gazed on victory through the grave. [This obviously refers to WW-1 when BCHS lost "many".]
3 With buoyant youth's unwav'ring stride, We'll tread the path of common good:
Confound with mirth distainful pride, and live in one brave brother[&sister?]hood.
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Wonderfully Victorian [although of course the grand ol' Gal was dead by WW-1] and "charmingly" sexist. A memoir of a world that once was and never more shall be. M.S-M
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"The School its glories who shall sing
In after days as we now do
And welcome him with loyal grip
Who speaks of School and comradeship"
Unofficially, the last two lines became "And welcome him with half a brick, who speaks of School and Mr Chick". Mr Chick was the nickname for Mr Coulson, a lovely chap who taught Chemistry, I think.