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Great Big Sea - Recruiting Sergeant Lyrics

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  • Two recruiting sergeants came to the CLB,
  • For the sons of the merchants, to join the Blue Puttees
  • So all the hands enlisted, five hundred young men...
  • Enlist ye Newfoundlanders and come follow me
  • They crossed the broad Atlantic in the brave Florizel,
  • And on the sands of Suvla, they entered into hell
  • And on those bloody beaches, the first of them fell...
  • Enlist ye Newfoundlanders and come follow me
  • CHORUS:
  • So it's over the mountains, and over the sea
  • Come brave Newfoundlanders and join the Blue Puttees
  • You'll fight the Hun in Flanders, and at Galipoli
  • Enlist ye Newfoundlanders and come follow me
  • The call came from London, for the last July drive
  • "To the trenches with the regiment, prepare yourselves to die"
  • The roll call next morning, just a handful survived.
  • Enlist ye Newfoundlanders and come follow me
  • CHORUS
  • The stone men on Water Street still cry for the day
  • When the pride of the city went marching away
  • A thousand men slaughtered, to hear the King say
  • Enlist ye Newfoundlanders and come follow me
  • CHORUS (x2)
  • Enlist ye Newfoundlanders and come follow me

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