《Forty Years》歌词

[00:00:20] Forty years on when afar and asunder

[00:00:21] Parted are those who are singing today

[00:00:25] When you look back and forgetfully wonder

[00:00:29] What you were like in your work and your play

[00:00:31] Then it may be there will often come o'er you

[00:00:32] Glimpses of notes like the catch of a song

[00:00:37] Visions of boyhood shall float them before you

[00:00:38] Echoes of dreamland shall bear them along

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[00:00:42] Till the field ring again and again

[00:00:45] With the tramp of the twenty two men

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[00:00:48] Routs and discomfitures rushes and rallies

[00:00:49] Bases attempted and rescued and won

[00:00:52] Strife without anger and art without malice

[00:00:55] How will it seem to you forty years on

[00:00:56] Then you will say not a feverish minute

[00:00:56] Strained the weak heart and the wavering knee

[00:01:07] Never the battle raged hottest but in it

[00:01:08] Neither the last nor the faintest were we

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[00:01:18] Till the field ring again and again

[00:01:21] With the tramp of the twenty two men

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[00:01:26] O the great days in the distance enchanted

[00:01:28] Days of fresh air in the rain and the sun

[00:01:35] How we rejoiced as we struggled and panted

[00:01:38] Hardly believable forty years on

[00:01:39] How we discoursed of them one with another

[00:01:43] Auguring triumph or balancing fate

[00:01:44] Loved the ally with the heart of a brother

[00:01:48] Hated the foe with a playing at hate

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[00:01:52] Till the field ring again and again

[00:01:54] With the tramp of the twenty two men

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[00:01:59] Forty years on growing older and older

[00:02:02] Shorter in wind as in memory long

[00:02:04] Feeble of foot and rheumatic of shoulder

[00:02:05] What will it help you that once you were strong

[00:02:09] God give us bases to guard or beleaguer

[00:02:33] Games to play out whether earnest or fun

[00:02:36] Fights for the fearless and goals for the eager

[00:02:39] Twenty and thirty and forty years on

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[00:02:43] Till the field ring again and again

[00:02:49] With the tramp of the twenty two men

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[00:02:52] Written for Sir Winston Churchill's ninetieth birthday and first sung 28th November 1964

[00:02:56] Blazoned in honour For each generation

[00:02:58] You kindled courage to stand and to stay

[00:03:00] You led our fathers to fight for the nation

[00:03:04] Called Follow up and yourself showed the way

[00:03:05] We who were born in the calm after thunder

[00:03:07] Cherish our freedom to think and to do

[00:03:09] If in our turn we forgetfully wonder

[00:03:14] Yet we'll remember we owe it to you

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[00:03:20] Till the field ring again and again

[00:03:28] With the tramp of the twenty two men

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