以下是《Abingdon Boys School Desert Rose》的歌詞：
Abingdon School we stand
Desert Rose upon our land
Dawn breaks over us
But never on the hills of us
Abingdon, where the chariots roar
Your music carries us aloft
Chorus:
So this is the dawn we wait for
Blazing, bursting in the night
When you play the chords we believe in
You’ll raise our voices, singing out in flight
History that writes itself in stone
On desert rose and memory runs through
Our song
Ours is a song that speaks of
Strength and endurance and our youth
Our hope and courage to take on
Life, to find our own true worth
Oasis of love and laughter
On the harsh, dry ground of war
A thousand lessons we’ve learned
To never let our spirits fall
Verse 2:
For this is our story
In the desert rose we’ll stay
And rise up, singing out in flight
To the dawn that we’ve been waiting for
Chorus:
So this is the dawn we wait for
Blazing, bursting in the night
When you play the chords we believe in
You’ll raise our voices, singing out in flight
Outlaws, misfits and the hopeless dreams
Bleed and shattered hearts upon our pikes
With tears and songs of bravery, we raise the sunken spirits up in song
For Abingdon’s warriors unite with all who lost their lives before
In battlefields we walk on memories, let’s stay alive with this hope in our souls.
Chorus:
So this is the dawn we wait for
Blazing, bursting in the night
When you play the chords we believe in
You’ll raise our voices, singing out in flight.