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VERSE 1
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Prince Louis Battenberg is 
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burning the Admiralty lights down 
low
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Silently sifting through papers 
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sealed with a crown
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Admiral Lord Fisher is writing to
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 Churchill, calling for more 
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Dreadnoughts
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The houses in Hackney are all 
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falling down

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And my grandmother sits on the 
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beach in the days before the war
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Young girl writing her diary,   
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 while time seems to pause
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Watching the waves as they come 
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one by one to die on the shore
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Kissing the feeeeeeeeeeet of 
England.


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VERSE 2
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Oh the lights of Saint Petersburg 
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come on as usual
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Although the air seems charged 
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with a strangeness of late, yet 
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there's nothing to touch
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And the Tsar in his great Winter 
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Palace has called for the foreign 
news
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An archduke was shot down in 
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Bosnia, but nothing much

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And my grandmother sits before the 
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mirror in the days before the war
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Smiling a secret smile     as 
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she goes to the door
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And the young man rides off in his 
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carriage, homeward once more
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And the sun sets gentlyyyyyyyyyyyy 
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on England.


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VERSE 3
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Ah the day we decided to drive 
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down to Worthing, it rained and 
rained
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Giving us only a minute to stand 
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by the sea
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And crunching my way through the 
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shingles, it seemed there was 
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nothing changed
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Though the jetty was maybe more 
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scarred that I'd known it to be

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And Mandi and I stood and stared at
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 the overcast sky
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Where ten years ago we had stood, 
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my Grandfather and I
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And the waves still rushed in as 
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they had the year that he died
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And it seemed that my lifetime was 
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shrunken and lost in the tide
As it rose and fell on the 
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sideeeeeeeeeee of England


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D                          A     
Prince Louis Battenberg is 
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burning the Admiralty lights