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Our Festal Day

26 Feb 2009
The song of the Bo'ness Festival, 'Our Festal Day' is sung every year at the festival, and is a song that brings Bo'nessians together.

It is sung by Bo'ness folk wherever they meet - and has been heard all over the world, perhaps most famously when Thomas Mulholland led thousands of Bo'ness fans in a rousing rendition of 'the Fair song' at Ibrox as Bo'ness United lifted the Scottish Junior Cup at Ibrox in 1984.


See The Summer Sun Is Gleaming
Shining Bright O'er Land And Sea,
Nature's face with smiles is beaming
Symbol of festivity
All the Earth is gay and gaudy,
Mirth and joy together stray,
Bright Sol lendeth All his glory,
To illume Our Festal Day.

Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
With a laugh loud and long,
with and dance and a song,
We hail our festal day

Woods have donn'd their fairest garments,
Flowers, refreshed with morning dew,
Brighten sylvan nook and valley,
With the beauty of their hue.
Hill and upland, green and golden,
Where the whin and broom hold sway
Echo back the glandsome chorus
Hail! All Hail Our Festal Day,

Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail! Hail! Hail!
With a laugh loud and long,
with a dance and a song,
We hail our Festal Day.

(Words:R.Fleming, Music:E.C.Schofield)

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