00:07In the friendliest fashion, this man we salute. Though it is an old custom, we need not dispute.
00:16And that's not the reason from whence it did spring, for soon they shall say it is an old ancient
00:23thing.
00:24And this is the chorus. On this very day he passed away.
00:32So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of June is our Devonshire day.
00:44Old Winfrith was born here in Devon so fair, in the good town of Curtin not far from the square.
00:52His mother was British, a Devonshire maid, and his father a Saxon, a settler by trade.
01:01On this very day he passed away. So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of
01:14June is our Devonshire day.
01:16So they sent him to Isca, to learn him to read, to gain his religion in the monastery.
01:24From scholar to teacher to missionary, from scholar to teacher to missionary.
01:30Then he felt a calling to sail o'er the sea.
01:34On this very day he passed away.
01:40So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of June is our Devonshire day.
01:53Well he landed in Frisia, that pagan old place, with an aim to convert them to the Lord's holy grace.
02:03There he felled a great oak tree dedicated to Thor, which many admired, yet some did deplore.
02:12On this very day he passed away.
02:17So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of June is our Devonshire day.
02:27Well the Pope was delighted with all he did see, and he made him the Bishop of all Germany.
02:35But he felt that St. Winfrith was a queer sounding name, so he changed it to Boniface, a man of
02:43great fame.
02:44On this very day he passed away.
02:51So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of June is our Devonshire day.
03:04Well the father of Europe, Charlemagne, did decree.
03:09And they say he inspired the fair Christmas tree.
03:14But in Dockham they remembered how he felled their great oak.
03:19So they chopped down old Boniface with one fatal stroke.
03:23On this very day he passed away.
03:30So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of June is our Devonshire day.
03:42So now to conclude is the end of our song.
03:47I hope we've not kept you so terribly long.
03:51And we hope you'll agree Boniface is the one, the man to unite us and Devon's great son.
04:00On this very day he passed away.
04:07So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of June is our Devonshire day.
04:16So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of June is our Devonshire day.
04:23So wake up Bob Boniface, funny and gay, for the fifth day of June is our Devonshire day.
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