Eton Boating Song - Lyrics

Lyrics

Ordinarily only the first, sixth, seventh and eighth stanzas are sung (as shown here):

1.

Jolly boating weather,

And a hay harvest breeze,

Blade on the feather,

Shade off the trees,

Swing swing together,

With your bodies between your knees,

Swing swing together,

With your bodies between your knees.

6.

Rugby may be more clever,

Harrow may make more row,

But we'll row for ever,

Steady from stroke to bow,

And nothing in life shall sever

The chain that is round us now,

And nothing in life shall sever

The chain that is round us now.

7.

Others will fill our places,

Dressed in the old light blue,

We'll recollect our races,

We'll to the flag be true,

And youth will be still in our faces

When we cheer for an Eton crew,

And youth will be still in our faces

When we cheer for an Eton crew.

8.

Twenty years hence this weather

May tempt us from office stools,

We may be slow on the feather

And seem to the boys old fools,

But we'll still swing together

And swear by the best of schools,

But we'll still swing together

And swear by the best of schools.