Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
'Goodbye, Dolly Gray' is a music hall song, with lyrics by American Will D. Cobb and music by American Paul Barnes, first published in 1897 by the Morse Music Publishing Company. The song was popularised as a Boer War anthem, but it was actually written during the earlier Spanish–American War.
Performed by Florrie Forde.
Images:
British Soldiers in Johannesburg, 1900.
'The Reservist's Farewell' by Ralph Hedley in 1900.
British troops on parade in South Africa, 1900.
'Battle of Bergendal' by James Prinsep Beadle.
'Goodbye, Dolly Gray' is a music hall song, with lyrics by American Will D. Cobb and music by American Paul Barnes, first published in 1897 by the Morse Music Publishing Company. The song was popularised as a Boer War anthem, but it was actually written during the earlier Spanish–American War.
Performed by Florrie Forde.
Images:
British Soldiers in Johannesburg, 1900.
'The Reservist's Farewell' by Ralph Hedley in 1900.
British troops on parade in South Africa, 1900.
'Battle of Bergendal' by James Prinsep Beadle.
