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Thanks Graeme,
I'll try to get hold of at least one of the sources.
Cooksley mentions some verses and Biggin Hill History others. Those are my main sources. As with all "folk" music, I guess words would have been very "flexible".
The verse about Seely, Under Secretary of State for Air, was used by 141, not 151 and ran:
So gather up quickly the fragments,
And when you've returned them to store,(to store)
Write Seely a letter and tell him,
His 141st is no more. *
very best regards from a fellow Heretic
Darryl
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Nunquam obliviscar
Not here are the goblets glowing,
Not here is the vintage sweet;
'Tis cold as our hearts are growing,
And dark as the doom we meet.
But stand to your glasses, steady!
And soon shall our pulses rise:
A cup to the dead already-
Hurrah for the next that dies!
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