Regimental Marches of The Foot Guards
Below are links to words and music for most of the regimental marches.
Slow marches
- Grenadier Guards: "Scipio" by Händel
- Coldstream Guards: "Figaro" (the tune is "Non piu andrai farfallone amoroso" from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro)
- Scots Guards: "The Garb of Old Gaul"
- Irish Guards: "Let Erin Remember"
- Welsh Guards: "Men of Harlech"
Quick marches
- Grenadier Guards: "The British Grenadiers"
- Coldstream Guards: "Milanollo"
- Scots Guards: "Hielan' Laddie"
- Irish Guards: "St Patrick's Day" whose lyrics were the poem "Pulse of an Irishman" (Beethoven did an arrangement of the march as part of a song cycle of Scots and Irish tunes).
- Welsh Guards: "The Rising of the Lark"
(See Wikipedia articles on "Men of Harlech", "The British Grenadiers", and "Hielan' Laddie".)
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