The Woad Ode
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The Woad Ode is a humorous, anonymous song, set to the tune of Men of Harlech. It is not intended to be historical. It first appeared in 1921 as a song in the English Boy Scouts.
- What's the use of wearing braces?
- Vests and pants and boots with laces?
- Spats and hats you buy in places
- Down the Brompton Road?
- What's the use of shirts of cotton?
- Studs that always get forgotten?
- These affairs are simply rotten,
- Better far is woad.
- Woad's the stuff to show men.
- Woad to scare your foemen.
- Boil it to a brilliant hue
- And rub it on your back and your abdomen.
- Ancient Briton ne'er did hit on
- Anything as good as woad to fit on
- Neck or knees or where you sit on.
- Tailors you be blowed!!
- Romans came across the channel
- All dressed up in tin and flannel
- Half a pint of woad per man'll
- Dress us more than these.
- Saxons you can waste your stitches
- Building beds for bugs in britches
- We have woad to clothe us which is
- Not a nest for fleas
- Romans keep your armours.
- Saxons your pyjamas.
- Hairy coats were made for goats,
- Gorillas, yaks, retriever dogs and llamas.
- Tramp up Snowdon with your woad on,
- Never mind if you get rained or blowed on
- Never want a button sewed on.
- Go it Ancient Bs!!
