It was 10th May early that day It was FA Cup final Saturday Sixty thousand football fans Headed home down Wembley way Arsenal and Preston North End Drew 1-1 that weekend Who would've thought later they'd pray Lives and not just goals are saved Londoners get ready To start a second shift Others fill the dance halls Or dine out at the Ritz Routine dusk patrols were carried out Around the coastlines before blackout The radar stations holding fort Pilots with nothing to report Just an hour later And heading towards the south coast Hostiles from across the channel Rapidly approach Air raid sirens screaming out with fright Signalling the start of the longest night A thousand bombers lighting up the skies You won't believe your eyes People running for their lives Sheltering down in the tubes In their masses, they wait in queues Suburban London comatosed Battered bruised with a bloody nose In defiance her spirits high Despite such lows, she'll never die Good old Blighty shakes her fist From out of the rubble of the London Blitz Fires like red hot lava Rage throughout the night Homes now gone forever We count the cost come daylight Air raid sirens screaming out with fright Signalling the start of the longest night A thousand bombers lighting up the skies You won't believe your eyes We are armed to endeavour The consequence of war Where nations pull together United one and all Air raid sirens screaming out with fright Signalling the start of the longest night A thousand bombers lighting up the skies Well, you'll never believe, oh no Air raid sirens screaming out with fright Signalling the start of the longest night A thousand bombers lighting up the skies You won't believe your eyes Well, you won't believe your eyes