[00:00.00]Harrow School - School Song
[00:07.32]Forty years on, when afar and asunder
[00:13.23]Parted are those who are singing today,
[00:18.36]When you look back, and forgetfully wonder
[00:24.20]What you were like in your work and your play,
[00:29.68]Then, it may be, there will often come o'er you,
[00:36.12]Glimpses of notes like the catch of a song -
[00:41.08]Visions of boyhood shall float them before you,
[00:47.15]Echoes of dreamland shall bear them along,
[00:52.35]Chorus
[00:53.38]Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up!
[00:56.39]Till the field ring again and again,
[01:01.80]With the tramp of the twenty-two men.
[01:06.62]Follow up! Follow up!
[01:16.18]Routs and discomfitures, rushes and rallies,
[01:21.54]Bases attempted, and rescued, and won,
[01:26.61]Strife without anger, and art without malice, -
[01:32.14]How will it seem to you, forty years on?
[01:37.45]Then, you will say, not a feverish minute
[01:43.11]Strained the weak heart and the wavering knee,
[01:48.63]Never the battle raged hottest, but in it,
[01:54.34]Neither the last nor the faintest, were we!
[02:00.07]Chorus
[02:00.63]Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up!
[02:03.86]Till the field ring again and again,
[02:08.52]With the tramp of the twenty-two men.
[02:13.77]Follow up! Follow up!
[02:22.09]O the great days, in the distance enchanted,
[02:29.02]Days of fresh air, in the rain and the sun,
[02:34.17]How we rejoiced as we struggled and panted -
[02:40.04]Hardly believable, forty years on!
[02:45.25]How we discoursed of them, one with another,
[02:51.73]Auguring triumph, or balancing fate,
[02:57.47]Loved the ally with the heart of a brother,
[03:03.05]Hated the foe with a playing at hate!
[03:08.51]Chorus
[03:09.71]Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up!
[03:13.07]Till the field ring again and again,
[03:17.37]With the tramp of the twenty-two men.
[03:22.89]Follow up! Follow up!
[03:31.84]Forty years on, growing older and older,
[03:37.91]Shorter in wind, as in memory long,
[03:43.08]Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder,
[03:48.58]What will it help you that once you were strong?
[03:54.13]God give us bases to guard or beleaguer,
[03:59.44]Games to play out, whether earnest or fun;
[04:04.68]Fights for the fearless, and goals for the eager,
[04:10.22]Twenty, and thirty, and forty years on!
[04:14.63]Chorus
[04:15.77]Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up!
[04:19.76]Till the field ring again and again,
[04:24.17]With the tramp of the twenty-two men.
[04:29.18]Follow up! Follow up!
[04:36.84](written for Sir Winston Churchill's ninetieth birthday and first sung 28th November 1964)
[04:38.67]Blazoned in honour! For each generation
[04:44.07]You kindled courage to stand and to stay;
[04:49.49]You led our fathers to fight for the nation,
[04:54.67]Called "Follow up" and yourself showed the way.
[04:59.46]We who were born in the calm after thunder
[05:05.13]Cherish our freedom to think and to do;
[05:10.60]If in our turn we forgetfully wonder,
[05:16.16]Yet we'll remember we owe it to you.
[05:21.55]Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up! Follow up!
[05:25.63]Till the field ring again and again,
[05:30.56]With the tramp of the twenty-two men.
[05:35.65]Follow up! Follow up!