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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