For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
Even now I see the foreign flag araising
And should I return safe home again to England
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
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
For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
I heard there's a wicked war or a blazing
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
I have no fear of death it brings no sorrow
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell
And I shall be on board that ship tomorrow
And the taste of war I know so very well
In the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
Their guns on fire as we sailed into hell
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
For you are beautiful and I have loved you dearly
Though death and darkness gather all about me
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dell
But how bitter will be this last farewell
And my ship be torn apart upon the sea
