 Genius Lyrics
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Anthony Green – Vera Lynn
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Would you please release me, everything is fading / I can’t keep my eyes shut long enough to see / Visions I’m getting confused with, shadows on my eyelids flicker in the light
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Vera Lynn – We'll Meet Again
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Original 1939 version of the popular standard. Lynn’s version (based on its release date and in a woman’s voice), speaks to the trouble and uncertainty of the times. It was
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Vera Lynn – Sailing
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I am sailing / I am sailing / Home again / 'Cross the sea / I am sailing / Stormy waters / To be near you / To be free / I am flying / I am flying / Like a bird / 'Cross the sky
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Vera Lynn (Ft. Bruce Campbell and His Orchestra) – Again
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[Verse 1] / Again / This couldn't happen again / This is that once in a lifetime / This is the thrill divine / [Verse 2] / What's more / This never happened before / Though, I have
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Vera Lynn (Ft. The Squadronaires) – Yours
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Yours 'til the stars lose their glory / Yours 'til the birds fail to sing / Yours to the end of life's story / This pledge to you dear, I bring / Yours in the grey of December
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Vera Lynn – I'll Be Seeing You
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Cathedral bells were tolling and our hearts sang on; / Was it the spell of Paris or the April dawn? / Who knows if we shall meet again? / But when the morning chimes ring sweet
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Vera Lynn – Now Is the Hour
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[Verse 1] / Now is the hour when we must say goodbye / Soon you'll be sailing far across the sea / While you're away, oh, please remember me / When you return, you'll find me
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Vera Lynn – Harbour Lights
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One evening long ago / A big ship was leaving / One evening long ago / Lover's were greaving / A crimsom sun went down / The lights began to glow / Across the harbour / One evening
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Vera Lynn – Jealousy
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Jealousy, `twas only through jealousy / Our hearts were broken, and angry words were spoken / Now all I have is memory to cherish so tenderly / With every token you have given to
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Vera Lynn – Lilli Marlene
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Underneath the lantern / By the barrack gate / Darling I remember / The way you used to wait / 'Twas there that you whispered tenderly / That you loved me / You'd always be / My
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Vera Lynn – Travellin' Home
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I’m travelling home, travelling home / Far have I roamed from the places I love / Winds that have blown me on my way / Blow me right back to harbour / Distant horizons speak from
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Vera Lynn – Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire
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Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire / Heading for the land of dreams / When I look back to those happy childhood days / Like yesterday it seems / It was grand my mother held my hand
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Vera Lynn – I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
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[Verse 1] / I'm dreaming dreams / I'm scheming schemes / I'm building castles high / They're born anew / Their days are few / Just like a sweet butterfly / And as the daylight is
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Vera Lynn – As Time Goes By
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You must remember this / A kiss is still a kiss / A sigh is just a sigh / The fundamental things apply / As time goes by / And when two lovers woo / They still say I love you / On
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Vera Lynn – When I Grow Too Old to Dream
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When I grow too old to dream / I’ll have you to remember / When I grow too old to dream / Your love will live in my heart / So kiss me my sweet / And so let us part / And when I
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Vera Lynn – Bless ’Em All / (We’re Gonna Hang Out) The Washing on the Siegfried Line / Kiss Me Goodnight, Sergeant Major
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Bless 'em all, bless 'em all / The long and the short and the tall / Bless all the sergeants and WO ones / Bless all the corporals and their blinkin' sons / 'Cause we're saying
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Vera Lynn – It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
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[Intro] / You know it's a sin to tell a lie / Still you keep saying, "I love you" / It may be true, I wish I knew / But I'm giving fair warning to you / [Verse] / Be sure it's true
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Vera Lynn – Smilin' Through
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There's a little brown road windin' over the hill / To a little white cot by the sea / There's a little green gate at whose trellis I wait / While two eyes o' blue come smilin
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Vera Lynn – If You Love Me (Really Love Me)
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If the sun should tumble from the sky / If the sea should suddenly run dry / If you love me, really love me / Let it happen, I won't care / If it seems that everything is lost / I
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Vera Lynn (Ft. The Ayoub Sisters) – A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
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When two lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell / Songbirds sing and winter turns to spring / Every winding street in Mayfair falls beneath the spell / I know such enchantment
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Vera Lynn – Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart
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Vera Lynn heard this German tune from the beer parlors of Switzerland and felt an urge to record this in English. Its original form was written by German composer Eberhard Storch
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Vera Lynn – Those Were the Days
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Once upon a time there was a tavern / Where we used to raise a glass or two / Remember how we laughed away the hours / And dreamed of all the great things we would do / Those were
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Vera Lynn – That Lovely Weekend
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My darling, here's my letter I'm writing through my tears / A few sweet words to thank you for lovely souvenirs / Memories you gave me still echo in my heart / I'll dream if then
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Vera Lynn – It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
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It's a lovely day tomorrow / Tomorrow is a lovely day / Come and feast your tear-dimmed eyes / On tomorrow's clear blue skies / If today your heart is weary / If ev'ry little thing
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Vera Lynn (Ft. Alexander Armstrong) – (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover
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Written in 1941 by Walter Kent (composition) and Nat Burton (lyrics) as a war song to lift the moral of the Allies, this song was popularised by Vera Lynn and Glen Miller.
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Vera Lynn – It Hurts to Say Goodbye
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Vera Lynn - It hurts to say Goodbye / Take me in your arms and hold me tight / Tell me that your love is mine tonight / Say that everything will turn up right / It hurts to say
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Vera Lynn – My Way
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And now, the end is near; / And so I face the final curtain / My friend, Ill say it clear / Ill state my case, of which Im certain / Ive lived a life thats full / Ive traveled each
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Vera Lynn – My Son, My Son
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My son, my son / My son, my son / You're everything to me / My son, my son / You're all I hoped you'd be / My son, my son / My only pride and joy / God bless and keep you safe / My
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Vera Lynn – Wishing (Will Make It So)
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Wishing will make it so / Just keep on wishing and care will go / Dreamers tell us dreams come true / It's no mistake / Wishing are the dreams we dream when we're awake / The
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Vera Lynn – You'll Never Know
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You'll never know just how much I miss you / You'll never know just how much I care / And if I tried, I still couldn't hide my love for you / You ought to know, for haven't I told
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Vera Lynn – The Loveliest Night of the Year
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When you are in love / It's the loveliest night of the year / Stars twinkle above / And you almost can touch them from here / Words fall into rhyme / Anytime you are holding me
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Vera Lynn – Who Are We
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Who are we to doubt the things we see, a rose, a leaf, a tree / And who are they to dare to say our love can never be / Ask yourself or ask the friendly dove why bluebirds mate
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Vera Lynn – When You Wish Upon a Star
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When a star is born / They possess a gift or two / One of them is this / They have the power to make a wish come true / When you wish upon a star / Makes no difference who you are
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Vera Lynn – I'll Pray for You
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On the land or in the air / Or on the deep blue sea / I don't care no matter where / You're everything to me / I'll pray for you while you're away / Each night and day I'll pray
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Pink Floyd – Prelude [Vera Lynn]
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[Sample: Vera Lynn] / We'll meet again / We'll meet again / Don't know where / Don't know when / But I know we'll meet again some sunny day
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Pink Floyd – Vera
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Roger Waters initially wanted the song “We’ll Meet Again” to open The Wall, one of Vera Lynn’s most successful, if not the most successful.
As he drifts farther from reality, Pink
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Vera Lynn – Mr. Wonderful
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[Verse 1] / Why this feeling? Why this glow? / Why the thrill when you say "Hello"? / It's a strange and tender magic you do / Mr. Wonderful, that's you / [Verse 2] / Why this
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Vera Lynn – A Kiss to Build a Dream On
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[Verse 1] / Give me a kiss to build a dream on / And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss / Sweetheart, I ask no more than this / A kiss to build a dream on / [Verse 2] / Give
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Vera Lynn – Love Letters
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[Verse 1] / Love letters straight from your heart / Keep us so near while apart / I'm not alone in the night / When I can have all the love you write / [Verse 2] / I memorize every
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Vera Lynn – When You Hear Big Ben
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[Verse 1] / When you hear Big Ben, you're home again / Home, dear, where you belong / Though you're far away each night and day / You'll cry when you hear his song / [Bridge] / He
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Vera Lynn – The Love Bug Will Bite You
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[Verse] / Listen all you people, you'd better beware / Love's an epidemic and it's in the air / It's a thing that gets you, even though you're very smart / So take some good advice
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Vera Lynn – Medley: Don’t Fence Me In / If I Had My Way / Deep in the Heart of Texas
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Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above / Don't fence me in / Let me ride through the wide open country that I love / Don't fence me in / Let me be by myself in the
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Vera Lynn – Forget-Me-Not
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Forget me not today / Though I am far away / Just let my memory stay / Safe in your heart / Parting brings sorrow / Hope for tomorrow / Sweetheart, what e'er betide / Let true love
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Vera Lynn – Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
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[Verse 1] / Where have all the flowers gone? / Long time passing / Where have all the flowers gone? / Long time ago / Where have all the flowers gone? / Young girls have picked
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