Album: We'll Meet Again (1940)

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• There'll be bluebirds over
  The white cliffs of dover
  Tomorrow
  Just you wait and see
  
  I'll never forget the people I met
  Braving those angry skies
  I remember well as the shadows fell
  The light of hope in their eyes
  
  And though I'm far away
  I still can hear them say
  Bombs up
  But when the dawn comes up
  
  There'll be bluebirds over
  The white cliffs of dover
  Tomorrow
  Just you wait and see
  
  There'll be love and laughter
  And peace ever after
  Tomorrow
  When the world is free
  
  The shepherd will tend his sheep
  The valley will bloom again
  And Jimmy will go to sleep
  In his own little room again
  
  There'll be bluebirds over
  The white cliffs of dover
  Tomorrow
  Just you wait and see
  
  There'll be bluebirds over
  The white cliffs of dover
  Tomorrow
  Just you wait and see Writer/s: Nat Burton, Walter Kent
  Publisher: GANNON & KENT MUSIC CO, Red Brick Music Publishing, Shapiro Bernstein & Co Inc
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

• Charles Scott from IndianaI was born in 1938 , two years before the United States entered WWII. I remember hearing Vera Lynn singing “Bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover” as my parents, Bob and Esther listened to it on their radio during World War II. The song was played so often that Esther sang it reverently as she listened. She prayed for the safe return of 3 of her brothers who served in the US airforce and army during the war years of the 1940's.
• Butch from Belpre,ohiomusic was music back then
• AnonymousHow many musical instruments are played in this song?
• Wayne from Preston, United Kingdomsurely the bluebirds referred to in vera lynn's song white cliffs of dover are the spitfire and hurricanes of the raf.
  the thinking behind this is that the underside of the aircraft was painted duck egg blue to match the sky from underneath, also the lyrics refere to braving those angry skys
  the above is just my interpritation that the song is about the brave few who met the onslought of german aircraft crossing the channel

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