Автор мелодии: Nat Burton & Walter Kent
1941 Wartime song featured and broadcast by Bebe Daniels also sung by
Vera Lynn, the forces sweetheart. Tabbed from key, Eb it is 4/4 time
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//I'll/nev-er for-get the/peo-ple I met/
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braving those an-gry/
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skies; I re-/mem-ber well as the/
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sha-dows fell, The/light of hope in their/
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eyes and/Tho' I'm far a-way I/
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still can hear them say, "Thumbs//up!"----/
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--For when the/dawn comes/up //There'll be//:
(Chorus)
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Blue-birds/ov-er THE/WHITE CLIFFS OF/DOVER, to-/
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mor-row,/ just you wait and/see---/
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- There'll be/love and/laughter and/
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peace ev-er/af-ter, to-/mor-row,/
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When the world is/free.---/- The/
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shepherd will tend his/sheep, the/
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val-ley will bloom a-/gain, and/
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Jimmy will go to/sleep in his/own lit-tle room a/
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gain. There'll be/Blue-birds ov-er THE/
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WHITE CLIFFS OF/DOVER, to-/mor-row,/
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just you wait and/see---/ (repeat chorus)
Additional verse same as first verse tabbing.
I may not be near, but/I have no fear,/
His-t'ry will prove it/too, when the/
tale is told 'twill be/as of old for/
truth will al-ways win/through; but/
be I far or near, that/
slo-gan still I'll hear, "Thumbs// up!"-----/--
For when the/dawn comes/up:// There'll be//:
Yours Harmusman