{"id":7799,"date":"2022-03-08T21:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:07:33","slug":"the-last-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/the-last-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Farewell &#8211; END"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Farewell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hKdRpDpIR70\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/robertandrews.net\/images\/youtube.png\" width=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre class=\"_3F2CP _3hukP\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">[Verse 1] - - - - - <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">N.C.    <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">There's a [D] ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour.   <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">Tomorrow for ol' England will she [G] sail.   <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">[Em] Far away from your land of endless sunshine, <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">to my land full of rainy skies and [A] gales.   - - - - - A<\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">nd [D] I shall be on board that ship tomorrow. <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">Though my heart is full of tears at this [G] farewell<\/span>\r\n \r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"_3rlxz\">{ CHORUS } - - - - - <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">[Em] For [A] you are [D] beauti- [Bm] -ful and [Em] I have loved you [A] dearly;   <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">more [Em] dearly than the [A] spoken word can [D] tell.   <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">[Em] For [A] you are [D] beauti- [Bm] -ful and [Em] I have loved you [A] dearly;   <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">more [Em] dearly than the [A] spoken word can [D] tell. <\/span> [Em]<\/span>\r\n \r\n<span class=\"_3rlxz\">[Verse 2] - - - - - <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">I [D] heard there's a wicked war a-blazing,  <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">and the taste of war I know so [G] well.   <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">[Em] Even now I see that foreign flag a-raising,    <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">their guns on fire as we sailed into [A] hell. - - - - -  <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">I [D] have no fear of death it brings no sorrow, <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">but how bitter will be this last fare- [G] -well\r\n<\/span> \r\n<span class=\"_3rlxz\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - - - -<\/span> <\/span>\r\n \r\n<span class=\"_3rlxz\">[Verse 3] - - - - - <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">Though [D] death and darkness gather all about me, a<\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">nd my ship be torn apart upon the [G] sea.   <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">I shall [Em] smell again the fragrance of these islands,  <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">in the heaving waves that brought me once [A] to thee.  A<\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">nd [D] should I return safe home again to England.   <\/span><span class=\"_3rlxz\">I shall watch the English mist roll through the [G] dale\r\n<\/span> \r\n<span class=\"_3rlxz\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - - - -<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Farewell [Verse 1] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; N.C. There&#8217;s a [D] ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour. Tomorrow for ol&#8217; England will she [G] sail. [Em] Far away from your land of endless sunshine, to my land full of rainy skies and [A] gales. &#8211; &#8211; &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/the-last-farewell\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Last Farewell &#8211; END<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,133,126,265,64,116,117,115,68,131,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-irish-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-power-outage","category-end-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30255,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/30255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}