Written by R. A. Webster/Ron Webster/Roger Whittaker
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There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor;
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Tomorrow for old England she sails,
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Far away from your land of endless sunshine,
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To my land full of rainy skies and gales.
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And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow,
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Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell;
Refrain:
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For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly,
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More dearly than the spoken word can tell.
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For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly,
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More dearly than the spoken word can tell.
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I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing,
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And the taste of war I know so very well;
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Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising,
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Their guns on fire as we sail into hell.
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I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow;
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But how bitter will be this last farewell,
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Though death and darkness gather all about me,
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My ship be torn apart upon the seas,
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I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
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And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee.
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And should I return safe home again to England,
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I shall watch the English mist roll through the dells,
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