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A Bachelor Gay

F. Clifford Harris

“A Bachelor Gay” as printed in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918).

F. Clifford Harris: Collected Lyrics Text 1 1918 · historical text
Public domainSoldier songHistorical song
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This text comes from The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book, a historical songbook transcribed on Wikisource and reproduced from the pinned revision linked below.

Verse 1

At seventeen he falls in love quite madly

With eyes of tender blue,

At twenty-four he gets it rather badly

With eyes of a diff'rent hue,

At thirty-five you'll see him flirting sadly

With two or three, or more,

When he fancies he is past love,

It is then he meets his last love,

And he loves her as he's never lov'd before.

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Written by F. Clifford Harris

Words by F. Clifford Harris. Historical text published in The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918); public domain. No claim to a modern recording or arrangement.

Source & text edition

The Canadian Soldiers' Song Book (1918), “A Bachelor Gay”

The 1918 published edition is in the public domain in the United States (pre-1931 publication). Entries whose credited author died more than 70 years ago are also in the public domain in life-plus-70 jurisdictions; other entries are held.

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