There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor.
Tomorrow for all England, she said.
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and game.
I shall be on board that ship tomorrow
Oh, my heart is full of tears at this rate.
For you are beautiful
And I have loved you dearly, more dearly than the spoken word can tell.
I heard there's a wicked war blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well.
Even now I see the foreign flags are raising.
Their guns on fire as we sailed into hell
I have no fear of death.
It brings no sorrow.
bitter will be this last farewell.
For you are beautiful
And I have loved you dearly, more dearly than this open world can tell.
Though death and darkness gather all about me
And my ship be torn apart upon the sea.
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands.
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee.
And should I return safe home again to England?
I shall watch the English mist roll through the day.
For you are beautiful, and I have loved you dearly.
More dearly than the spoken word can tell.
For you are beautiful.
And I have loved you dearly, more dearly than the spoken word.
can tell.
