Aftermath

THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER

I’ll never forget the people I met

Braving those angry skies

I remember well as the shadows fell

The light of hope in their eyes

And though I’m far away

I still can hear them say

‘Thumbs up…’

But when the dawn comes up

There’ll be bluebirds over

The white cliffs of Dover

Tomorrow

Just you wait and see

There’ll be love and laughter

And peace ever after

Tomorrow

When the world is free

The shepherd will tend his sheep

The valley will bloom again

And Jimmy will go to sleep

In his own little room again

There’ll be bluebirds over

The white cliffs of Dover

Tomorrow

Just you wait and see

Music by Walter Kent

Lyrics by Nat Burton

Published in 1941

Made famous by Vera Lynn

The lyricist, Nat Burton, an American who had never been

to England, died on 21 March 1945, at the age of forty-four,

seven weeks before the end of the war in Europe.

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