Galahad

When Comex 4 embarked on the Sir Lancelot for Penang it was with the avowed intention of rehearsing the programme for Malaysia and Singapore on board. But that was before a buoyant ship and a turbulent sea sent all members below deck to their bunks. The journey down the peninsular was less eventful, but Comex sang and danced with enthusiasm and earned a generous accolade from Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew: 'Comex is an adventure with all the excitement with which the Commonwealth began. Long may it continue.'   Sailing back to Calcutta on the Sir Galahad (later lost in the Falklands) the Captain, James Foster, and his Crew were challenged to a duel in song, which continued late into the night. Let's Sing a Song is a tribute to Malaysia and Singapore – and the ships that carried Comex there. (A Green Pennant Award was presented to the new Sir Galahad at the awards ceremony at State House in Lusaka.

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Let's sing a song, what shall we sing,

The birds and the bees and the flowers in spring,

Let's sing a song, what shall we sing,

The moon and the stars and everything.

Let’s all sing it together,

The weak hand in hand with the strong,

Let’s all sing it together,

The choice of a sword or a song.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,

The idea is a thousand years old.

So a heart that is warm, the riddle might add,

Is worth more than one that is cold.

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Extending the moral and widening the theme

A smile is worth many wise frowns,

As judges, politicians, parsons and kings

Achieve less in their labours than clowns

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Cheery words, laughter, kind thoughts and deeds,

Are worth more than the opposite kind,

But they need reinforcing with something more fluid

Than the spirit that flows from the mind.

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Deeds are worth more than words galore,

Action is decision and thought,

But the bird in the riddle is the word in the middle

And one that can never be bought.

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