Intro:
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In the year of '39 assembled here the volunteers
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In the days when lands were few
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Here the ship sailed out into the
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Blue and sunny morn, sweetest sight ever seen.


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And the night followed day, and the storytellers say
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That the score brave souls inside
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For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
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Never looked back, never feared, never cried.


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Don't you hear my call, though you're many years away,
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Don't you hear me calling you
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Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
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In the land that our grandchildren knew.

Bridge:
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In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue

The volunteers came home that day

And they bring good news of a world so newly born

Though their hearts so heavily weigh

For the earth is old and grey, little darling we'll away

But my love this cannot be

For so many years have gone though I'm older but a year

Your mother's eyes, from your eyes cry to me.

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away

Don't you hear me calling you

All the letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand


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For my life, still ahead, pity me.

Outtro:
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