'In the year of thirty-nine'
Assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day
Sailed across the milky seas
Never looked back never feared never cried

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

'In the year of thirty-nine'
Came a ship in from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news
Of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey
Little darlin' we'll away
But my love this cannot be
Oh so many years have gone
Though i'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All your letters in the sand
Cannot heal me like your hand
For my life still ahead pity me

So the fire is almost out
and there's nothing left to burn
I've run right out of thoughts
and I've run right out of words
as I used them up, I used them up...

Yeah, the fire is almost cold
and there's nothing left to burn
I've run right out of feeling
and I've run right out of world
and everything I promised,
and everything I tried
Yeah, everything I ever did
I used to feed the fire

I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire

But the fire is almost out is almost out...
And there's nothing left to burn

No there's nothing left to burn
Not even this...

And the fire is almost dead
and there's nothing left to burn
I've finished everything...

And all the things I promised,
and all the things I tried
yeah, all the things I ever dreamed
I used to feed the fire

I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire
I used to feed the fire

But the fire is almost out...

Half my life i've been here
Half my life in flames
Using all I ever had
to keep the fire ablaze

to keep the fire ablaze
to keep the fire ablaze
to keep the fire ablaze...

But there's nothing left to burn
No there's nothing left to burn
and the fire is almost out
there fire is almost out
almost out, almost out
almost out, almost out...

and there's nothing left to burn

Wooh hoo
In the year of '39 assembled here the volunteers
In the days when the lands were few
And the ship sailed out into the blue and misty morn
The sweetest sign ever seen.

And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
The score brave souls inside
For so many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back, never feared, never cried.

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I take your hand
In the land that our grandchildren knew.

Aah, aah, aah, aah, aah, aah

In the year of '39 a simple ship came from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news from a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
Now the earth is old and grey, to a new home we'll away
But my love this cannot be
For so many years have gone now I'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes in your eyes cry to me

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand
In the land when our grandchildren knew

Don't you hear my call though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand

All my life
Still ahead
Pity me.

Oh oh oh wooh

In the year of thirty-nine
Assembled here the volunteers
In the days when lands were few
Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn
The sweetest sight ever seen
And the night followed day
And the story tellers say
That the score brave souls inside
For many a lonely day
Sailed across the milky seas
Ne'er looked back never feared never cried

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

In the year of thirty-nine
Came a ship in from the blue
The volunteers came home that day
And they bring good news
Of a world so newly born
Though their hearts so heavily weigh
For the earth is old and grey
little darlin' we'll away
But my love this cannot be
Oh so many years have gone
Though i'm older but a year
Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
Write your letters in the sand
For the day I'll take your hand
In the land that our grand-children knew

Don't you hear my call
Though you're many years away
Don't you hear me calling you
All your letters in the sand
Cannot heal me like your hand
For my life, still ahead, pity me.