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Jim Radford - The shores of Normandy

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Titre : The shores of Normandy


Année : 2019


Auteurs compositeurs : Jim Radford


Durée : 3 m 58 s


Label : FrtyFve


Référence : B07S2DW23T


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In the cold grey light of the sixth of June,
In the year of forty-four,
The Empire Larch sailed out from Poole to join with thousands more.
The largest fleet the world had seen, we sailed in close array,
And we set our course for Normandy at the dawning of the day.

There was not one man in all our crew but knew what lay in store,
For we had waited for that day through five long years of war.
We knew that many would not return, but all our hearts were true,
For we were bound for Normandy, where we had a job to do.

Now the Empire Larch was a deep-sea tug with a crew of thirty-three,
And I was just the galley-boy on my first trip to sea.
I little thought when I left home of the dreadful sights I'd see,
But I came to manhood on the day that I first saw Normandy.

At Arromanches, off the Beach of Gold,
'Neath the rockets' deadly glare,
We towed our blockships into place and we built a harbour there.
'Mid shot and shell we built it well, as history does agree,
While brave men died in the swirling tide on the shores of Normandy.

For every hero's name that's known, a thousand died as well.
On stakes and wires their bodies hung, rocked in the ocean swell;
And many a mother wept that day for the sons they loved so well,
Men who cracked a joke and cadged a smoke
As they stormed the gates of hell.

As the years pass by, I can still recall the men I saw that day
Who died upon that blood-soaked sand where now sweet children play;
And those of you who were unborn, who've lived in liberty,
Remember those who made it so on the shores of Normandy.
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Trocol Harum Le 05/06/2022 à 04:33
Jim Radford, né le 1er octobre 1928 à Hull (East Riding of Yorkshire) est une chanteur de folk et compositeur britannique. Il fut le plus jeune soldat britannique ayant participé au débarquement le 6 juin 1944.
Pour honorer la mémoire de son frère Jack, tué lors du torpillage du navire SS Cree en novembre 1940, il a composé la chanson .

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