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Victoria College Students' Carnival. Thursday and Saturday - 25th & 27th June 1908

Chorus

Chorus

Oh ! you may have heard before
Of a certain windy mound
With the houses perched on cliffs
On the minimum of ground;
Where the streetways are so wide
Two can walk them side by side,
It's the first and foremost city in New Zealand, Free land, Zealand.
It's the first and foremost city in New Zealand.

The Empire City see
Upon the hills beside the sea,
Though you search you cannot get a
City site that's any better
Than the site on Lambton Quay.
No Christchurch plains for me,
The ocean's wave I love to see,
Though Auckland may be Eden,
And Paradise Dunedin,
Yet Wellington will do for me.

Oh ! the mob that there abide,
Cosmopolitan they are,
Though they nearly all are Chows,
Or are members of the Bar;
Though they've lost their Lead in art,
Grabbing money on the mart,
They're the first and foremost people in New Zealand, Free land, Zealand,
They're the first and foremost people in New Zealand.

The Empire City see, &c,

In the month of April last,
They were Achin' for a Mayor,
And though Duthie Fished for votes,
His lopsided ways were clear.
Oh ! the leading lights so shine
That the natives all opine
It's the first and foremost city in New Zealand, Free land, Zealand,
It's the first and foremost city in New Zealand.

The Empire City see, &c.