Memories

1960s; 1981-

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Together we stand, St Mary's loyal men
Comrades all, right on to the end
Our work well done, we always do our best
Every task with courage and with zest
Forever true, forever true
To God and country we shall be
And always our dear school to thee

Refrain (× 2): Faithful we'll ever be
To our Alma Mater now and ever after
So that all shall see that we stand for loyalty

Onward we go, no matter what the cost
Striving still in spite of every loss
Our flag on high, waving in the air
Follow boys, it's proudly waiting there
The green and gold, the green and gold
For thee we'll toil with joy and love
And keep thee floating up above

1971-1981

St. Mary's, our own dear school
Our voices we join in praise of you
Your glory, so widely known, we proudly own
In you we learn to work and play
You direct us how to pray
God we serve, and then our land
These the loves for which we stand
So God keep us true to you
And bless our school

1965-1971

Oh we're the boys of dear St. Mary's School
In the hills of Rajasthan
Where we work and play, are employed each day
Till we end our allotted span
It's a school we all are proud to own
And our teachers join us too
In the dim and distant years to come
To our motto we'll be true

Refrain: Valiant boys, we'll forge our way ahead
Though the way be rough or be smooth
May God grant we'll all meet up above
Each and all from the one dear school

In our class, without, on the field of play
We strive with all our might
To make the name of St Mary's great
In the eyes of one and all
Long may our hearts recall each moment here
When the time comes to disband
To you we pledge our lives, to you we owe so much
Our own dear school in Rajasthan

1963-64 

There's one fair spot in our country
With mem'ries so glorious and grand
Where nature has lavished its beauty
In the heart of the Rajputs' bright land

There lies our dear school with its teachers
The sons of St Patrick so true
And it bears in the depths of its bosom
High hopes for all and for you

Refrain  It's my own school so gay
But, yet one day
I know that I must leave you
In other climes to stray
No matter where I wander
In cities near or far
My thoughts will return to Mount Abu
And this joy no one can mar

We walk every path of the jungle
Old Plummy so oft do we climb
To the haunts of the tiger and panther
Then back by the old road again

Sometimes to the point where the sunset
Sinks into the streamlets and rills
To return when the shadows of evening
And darkness come over the hills

Goethals Memorial School

What, another CB school's anthem?  Sure! We're all friends. As band master in 1968-69, Mr H J Ludwig introduced the Goethals anthem to St Mary's. Nice tune, we thought, but we found much later that it was from “On, Wisconsin,” the University of Wisconsin fight song, composed by William T Purdy. John Philip Sousa, the Mozart of American march music, is said to have described this as “the finest college marching song ever written,” so with credentials like that, here it is for the record. This is roughly the version arranged by Mr Ludwig for the school band: