'39

In the year of '39 assembled here the Volunteers
In the days when the lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and eastern morn
The sweetest sight ever seen.
And the night followed day
and the story tellers say
that the score brave souls inside
for so many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried.

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

Write your letters in the sand
for the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew.

In the year of '39 the super a ship in from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news from a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey, little darlin' 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 in your eyes cry to me.

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