City Boys' School Song was composed by H.H. Sykes around 1958. This was no doubt played countless times on the pipe organ installed in the Great Hall or on the school piano.
Old Boy Andrew Radford has transcribed the song onto manuscript paper. For all you budding musicians out there, please feel free to print the music off for your own personal use.
To hear a YouTube recording of the old school song, played by Tom Horton (talented nephew of our founder Dennis Duggan), click/tap HERE - don't forget to have the sound switched on!
(Note this should also work on most mobile devices - but apologies to all for the unavoidable YouTube ads!).
Sing along if you can! Here are the lyrics (in a readable form!):-
1. Let hearts awake and voices ring,In cheerful concert let us sing;Our School the theme to which we raise,Our Song in pride and fitting praise.[Chorus]Vivat crescat in aeternum floreat,scola quam laudamus,primem lucem juventutis,semper te amamus2. And when in later years we cast,our thoughts anew to school days past,Shall we not feel new love as men,recalling what she gave us then.Vivat crescat in aeternum floreat,scola quam laudamus,primem lucem juventutis,semper te amamus
3. And years that pass shall never mar,the shining brightness of her star,which high aloft in joy or strife,will lead us on unharmed through life.Vivat crescat in aeternum floreat,scola quam laudamus,primem lucem juventutis,semper te amamusprimem lucem juventutis,semper te amamus
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