Variations on this theme continued until early 2006, and today the station still uses a version with a less pronounced melody from the folk song. Radio Lincolnshire used the melody from the end of the song's chorus as the signature tune for its news jingle when it commenced service in 1980 and in 1988 commissioned UK jingle company Alfasound to write a package of jingles based on the song. The first two bars of the tune were used as an interval signal on the numbers station known as Lincolnshire Poacher. In 1978, the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band issued 'The Lincolnshire Poacher' as its follow-up single to their successful ' The Floral Dance', and it was included on the 1978 album The Floral Dance. Frank Newman instrumented the song for four hands on piano.

In 1961, Benjamin Britten arranged the song as no. Īnglo-Catholic congregations in the Anglican communion sometimes use the tune as a setting for a hymn sung in procession that begins, 'The Happy Birds Te Deum Sing, 'Tis Mary's Month of May.' Longcroft, sought permission from the then Regimental Colonel of the Lincolnshire Regiment to adopt the march as the quick march of the College.

When the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, the officer training school of the Royal Air Force, was formed in Lincolnshire in 1919, its first Commandant, Air Commodore C. The Lincolnshire Poacher was also the marching song for the 20th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, during the First World War. The tune was used by many New York Regiments during the American Civil War as The New York Volunteer. It is also the authorised march of The Lincoln and Welland Regiment of the Canadian Forces. Prior to 1881 this Battalion had been the 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers). It is the principal musical theme of the quick march of the Intelligence Corps. Also, it was the regimental march of the 2nd battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire). 'The Lincolnshire Poacher' was the regimental quick march of the 10th Regiment of Foot and its successors the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment, who are known as 'the Poachers'. Problems playing this file? See media help. The interval signal of the Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station, a numbers station that operated from Cyprus from the mid-1970s to 2008.

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