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I am looking for the words to 'Song of Liberty' by A P Herbert ...?

... it's the poem used as lyrics for Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance March #4 in G.

I've tried to find it online, with no luck. If anyone knows the words or can find them where I've failed to do so, I'd be really grateful.

Thanks.

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    Here it is from a google group post:

    Song of Liberty

    (Words by A.P. Herbert)

    VERSE

    Fight for freedom, ev`ryone.

    Build the ship and man the gun.

    Do as you have never done

    To set the peoples free.

    We, the few, the happy free,

    Will fly the flags of Liberty,

    Blow the horns of Liberty! Liberty!

    Till the world is free.

    CHORUS

    All men must be free.

    March for Liberty with me.

    Brutes and braggarts may

    Have their little day,

    We shall never bow the knee.

    God is drawing his sword.

    We are marching with the Lord.

    Sing, then, brother, sing,

    Giving ev`rything,

    All you are and hope to be,

    To set the peoples free.

    VERSE

    Wake and watch and work and win,

    Fight and farm and sew and spin,

    Fall the faithful people in

    To set the peoples free.

    But the day the battle`s won,

    Never say the fight is done.

    Make the world a better one! Better one!

    When the world is free.

    CHORUS

    All men must be free.

    March for Liberty with me.

    Brutes and braggarts may

    Have their little day,

    We shall never bow the knee.

    God is drawing his sword.

    We are marching with the Lord.

    Sing, then, brother, sing,

    Giving ev`rything,

    All you are and hope to be,

    To take the torch across the sea

    And set the peoples,

    Keep the peoples free.

    https://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.classica...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I've had a look too and can't find them. All I can remember is

    All men must be free,

    fight for liberty with me

    boasts and braggarts may have their little day

    we will never bend the knee.

  • 1 decade ago

    Much of Herbert's poetry is on oldpoetry.com. The one you are looking for may go by a different title. Try here:

    http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/by/A+P+Herbert/1?limit=...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Pomp And Circumstance Lyrics

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

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