====== #1244 - Keep the Home Fires Burning ======
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/*-20note-*//*-patriotic-*/
  *Composer:
    *David Ivor Davies (Ivor Novello) (1893-1951), 1914
  *Also known as:
    *Till the Boys Came Home
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
They were summoned from the hillside\\
They were called in from the glen,\\
And the country found them ready\\
At the stirring call for men.\\
Let no tears add to their hardships\\
As the soldiers pass along,\\
And although your heart is breaking\\
Make it sing this cheery song:\\
\\
Keep the Home Fires Burning,\\
While your hearts are yearning,\\
Though your lads are far away\\
They dream of home.\\
There's a silver lining\\
Through the dark clouds shining,\\
Turn the dark cloud inside out\\
'Til the boys come home.\\
\\
Overseas there came a pleading,\\
"Help a nation in distress."\\
And we gave our glorious laddies\\
Honour bade us do no less,\\
For no gallant son of freedom\\
To a tyrant's yoke should bend,\\
And a noble heart must answer\\
To the sacred call of "Friend."\\
\\
Keep the Home Fires Burning,\\
While your hearts are yearning,\\
Though your lads are far away\\
They dream of home.\\
There's a silver lining\\
Through the dark clouds shining,\\
Turn the dark cloud inside out\\
'Til the boys come home.\\
\\
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    *Lena Ford, 1914