Edited sentence: Bravely to fighgt for truth and right, For Motherland, Queen and God.Bright may the star of her glory shine, Bright as in days of yore,.Collingwood and Armstrong, Eldon and Bourne, Akenside, Stowell and Brand,.Far went they forth from the school of the north, That mother and maker of men.Fortifer defendit, fortifer defendit, fortifer defendit triamphans.Founded our rule and built our school, In bluff King Harry's reign,.Four-square to every wind that blows, In our stormy northern lands.God speed the school on the shores of the Tyne, That has stood for centuries four,.Horsely a merchant venturer bold, Of good Northumbrian strain,.Long shall his name old time defy, Like the castle grim that stands,.Many a name on the scroll of fame, Is the heritage of our land,.Many of the names of note from the school song still maintain a justified place in north-eastern, as well as English heritage.Pray too that we may worthy be, To tread where our fathers trod,.Strong in their wisdom, wise in their strength, Wielders of sword and of pen,.The RGS school song was always viewed with a mixture of pride and ridicule in equal measures.The current headmaster abolished the historic and traditional way of expressing school pride through the gift of music, so robbing future generations of pupils of a worthy institution.The lyrics needed to be updated despite the school's affectionately long use of the song, as several references were made to patriarchal terminology.The lyrics of the three known verses are as below.former pupils==