Drake's Drum Comments

There will always be anEngland.

This is a poem my ninety year old husband often comes out with, usually first thing in the morning when getting dressed! ! !

Great song sung by Peter Dawson and Charles Villiers Stanford. Hear it on YouTube

I LEARNED THIS POEM 62 YEARS AGO AT CHANDOS BOY; S SCHOOL IN NETHERFIELD NOTTM

I learned this poem when I was at school 62 years ago at Chandos secondary school in Netherfield Notts

We learned this poem at school in Barnstaple Devon sixty years ago. Pity it is being read by a computer.

We learned this poem at school in Barnstaple Devon sixty years ago.

Learnt it as a boy.Never forgotten it. Every schoolboy should learn it, and be proud to recite it any anytime.

Shame the person reading the poem was an American and could recognise Devon dialect! Completely spoils the poem