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No. 3 - Song - Lovelace and Chorus - "Marching Away."

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Chorus: Red coats! Hooray!
The Red coats are a-coming,
Red coats! Hooray!
With fifing and with drumming.
Marching away,
the Red coats are a-coming,
With fifing and with drumming.
Red coats! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!
Oh, how we love the fife and drumming!
Red coats! Hooray!
Soldiers: When duty calls you must obey, though love may try to blind you,
You must march away and think not of the gal you've left behind you.
Chorus: Welcome! Soldiers, hurrah!
Lovelace: When the regiment is marching to the drum and bugle call,
With an air that's debonair, I march, I march ahead of all.
With all our colors proudly flying, all admire my martial air;
at the word I draw my sword, let England's foes beware!
Then marching away, in rank and file so steadily,
Chorus: Steadily!
Lovelace: Marching away, to meet the foe so readily,
Chorus: Readily,
Lovelace: Marching away with drum and fife so merrily,
Chorus: Merrily,
Lovelace: Now to battle calling we march away.
All: Marching away, in rank and file so steadily, steadily,
Marching away, to meet the foe so readily, readily,
Marching away with drum and fife so merrily, merrily,
Lovelace: Soldiers, duty calls you, so march away.

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