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CAMP CHORUS
At the beginning of the Summer Term, 1942, the Headmaster of the Chefoo
Schools, Mr P. A. Bruce, conducted the school service. He took for his text the
opening verses of Ps. xivi and the refrain, ‘The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God
of Jacob is our refuge.’ Never had the meaning come home to me with such
power, in view of the presence of the Japanese and the uncertainty of the future.
I wrote this chorus almost immediately as the expression of my deep feeling, and
throughout our internment we sang it constantly. Stanley Houghton
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“...9 - PARENT COMES TO CHEFOO
1. Parent comes to Chefoo,
Brings his little chick,
Wants to come and see who
Will his darling lick,
Lands he in a bluster
Blowing from the Bluff.
Parent in a fluster —
Clothing not enough.
2. Rickshaws claim the party,
Take them to the San,
Where a welcome hearty
Warms the inner man,
Then they ask direction;
To the School they seek,
And the parent humble
Takes his infant meek.
3. By and by the chatter
To the school’s kind friends,
And they hear the clatter
Clatter which ne’er ends.
How hard-hearted teachers
Do not understand,
Treat the dears like creatures,
Feelingless and bland.
4. One day passing quad-ward
On their ears there fall
Sounds that neither of them
Understand at all.
Is this not a Boys’ School?
Yet an ‘uncle’, ‘aunt’,
‘Cat’ and ‘doctor’ meet them,
Understand they can't.
5. London Zoo in Chefoo
Surely this must be,
Animals around them
Everywhere they see.
‘Pussy’, ‘Leo’, ‘Dicky’,
‘Gollywog’ and ‘Ape’,
Then ‘Tar-baby’, ‘Chicken’,
Make them fairly gape...”
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