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The Last Farewell
(Roger Whittaker - R.A. Webster)

Copyright Crown Music Corp. Inc.

Original by Roger Whittaker in 1971

RCA studio session - February 2-8, 11-12, 1976 - The Jungle Room, Graceland - Memphis
February 2, 8-11 pm, 11 pm-2:30 am, 3-6 am, 6:30-9:30 am

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Overdub sessions for RCA studio - February 15-17, 24, March 24, 1976 - Young 'un Sound Studio - Murfreesboro
February ?
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March 24

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May 1976 LP RCA APL 1 1506 From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee
Overdubbed master without some instruments:

March 6, 2012 CD FTD 506020-975038 Our Memories Of Elvis Vol 1, 2 & 3 - The Pure Elvis Sound
Outtakes:

Takes 1, 2, 3 and 4: October 2012 CD FTD 506020-975046 From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee

Take 2: April 1, 2000 CD FTD 74321 74931-2 CD The Jungle Room Sessions

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbour
Tomorrow for old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

* For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell

* Repeat

I've heard there's a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see the foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell

* Repeat
* Repeat

Though death and darkness gather all about me
My ship be torn apart upon the seas
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return home safe again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the dale

* Repeat
* Repeat