星期六, 9月 26, 2020

聽首歌:The Last Farewell

  因為最近有十二個人出海兼有人唔願意負責之際,有一段音樂在耳邊響起,一時間想不到,應不會是「The Last Farewell」吧。

  The Last Farewell在一九七一年由Roger Whittaker創作,應是集體的成果。較喜歡版本由英國皇家海軍合唱團所演出,BBC亦有出版四十五轉唱片。

  畫面配合了一九七八年退役的皇家方舟號航空母艦(未知是否這一艘)艦上情景,包括戰機升空,那時的彈射由一條纜索拉動,並不是鎖在前輪位置。

  告別會帶來傷感,同時亦需要勇氣,如以前點唱節目一樣,注意歌詞。

The Last Farewell

作詞 / 作曲:Roger Whittaker / Ronald Arthur Webster


There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor

Tomorrow for old England she sails

Far away from your land of endless sunshine

To my land full of rainy skies and gales

And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow

Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell


For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly

More dearly than the spoken word can tell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly

More dearly than the spoken word can tell


I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing

And the taste of war I know so very well

Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising

Their guns on fire as we sail into hell

I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow

But how bitter will be this last farewell


For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly

More dearly than the spoken word can tell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly

More dearly than the spoken word can tell


Though death and darkness gather all about me

My ship be torn apart upon the seas

I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands

And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee

And should I return home safe again to England

I shall watch the English mist roll through the dale


For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly

More dearly than the spoken word can tell

For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly

More dearly than the spoken word can tell

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