 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1900 - 612 pages
...lads, In the fight for England's glory, lads, When we've had to show them what we mean ; And when wo say we've always won, And when they ask us how it's...to ev'ry one Of England's soldiers of the Queen.' Still, feeble as this is, the only deposit it is likely to leave in the minds of the rising generation... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - Clergy, Writings of - 1906 - 364 pages
...Remember who has made her so— (Chorus) It's the soldiers of the Queen Who've been, my lads, who're seen, my lads, In the fight for England's glory, lads,...to ev'ry one Of England's soldiers of the Queen." Still, feeble as this is, the only deposit it is likely to leave in the minds of the rising generation... | |
 | John M. MacKenzie, John MacDonald MacKenzie - History - 1986 - 276 pages
...who've seen, my lads, In the fight for England's glory, lads, Of its world wide glory let us sing. 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.76 In the specific context of the Boer War the song became... | |
 | Jean Rhys - Fiction - 1992 - 420 pages
...against perfect strangers - millions of perfect strangers in this horrible place). The bus wheels said 'And when we say we've always won, and when they ask us how it's done.' (You wouldn't dare say how you do it, not straight out you wouldn't, it's too damned mean the way you... | |
 | Barbara Ann Roberts - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 418 pages
...Who've been, my lads,/ Who're 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...they ask us how it's done/ We'll proudly point to everyone/ Of England's soldiers of the Queen!" Cronwright-Schreiner notes that the manuscript was completed... | |
 | David Peters Corbett, Lara Perry - Art - 2000 - 296 pages
...of the Queen, my lads, In the fight for England's glory, lads, Of its world wide glory let us sing. 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.56 As Penny Summerfield notes, this song was widely taken... | |
 | Andrew Lamb - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 320 pages
...It's the soldiers of the Queen, my lads, Who've been, my lads, who've seen, my lads, In the fight tor England's glory, lads, When we've had to show them...point to ev'ry one Of England's soldiers of the Queen. Another significant breakthrough was with the variety artist Lottie Collins, destined to be forever... | |
 | Jeffrey Richards - History - 2001 - 552 pages
...who've seen, my lads, In the fight for England's glory, lads, Of its world-wide glory, let us sing. And when we say we've always won, And when they ask us how it's done, We'll proudly point to every one Of England's soldiers of the Queen. Charles K. Harris's Break the News to Mother (1897) tells... | |
 | G. K. Chesterton - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 348 pages
...satisfied with howling the following lines, heard in all music-halls some twenty years afterwards: And when we say we've always won And when they ask us how it's done We proudly point to every one Of England's soldiers of the Queen. I cannot help having a dim suspicion... | |
 | English literature - 1900 - 624 pages
...Remember who has made her so — (Chorus) It's the soldiers of the Queen Who've been, my lads, who're seen, my lads, In the fight for England's glory, lads,...to ev'ry one Of England's soldiers of the Queen.' Still, feeble as this is, the only deposit it is likely to leave in the minds of the rising generation... | |
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When we've had 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'ry one Of England's soldiers of the Queen. 