The Old Sanawarian Society

Posted on: Nov 12, 2021

Tank

Lyrics by Mr. S C "Sammy" Cowell, Headmaster

written for the Muddlers Concert of October 1947 and sung to the tune of a popular rhumba of the time.

"You know that we have a swimming pool

And it's filled with water blue and cool

All the boys just love to go in "tank"

But the girls stand on the bank.

Chorus

So their bathing suits never get wet

They pose on the sides looking pretty

And say it would be a great pity

If our bathing suits ever got wet!"

When the time for swimming heats comes round

For each race some entries must be found

But the question is can this be done?

If the colours are going to run

Chorus

For their bathing suits mustn't get wet....etc.

There are three more verses all in a similar 'ragging' vein, but I have forgotten them.

D.V. Boddington.

(LRMS Sanawar 1942-1947)

October 2001.

Their Bathing Suits Never Get Wet