Albion
The Mighty Handful
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We invent and surmise Hostelries awash with Improbable dreams and careless talk We resist and survive Beneath a chequered flag Proud we stand upon Ramparts of chalk Edward the Confessor Becket and Boudicca Churchill, Purcell, Cromwell Everyone from Florence Nightingale to Septimus Severus and the Venerable Bede is a tether for us A multitudinous chorus that echoes through the fabric of life Drake, Wren, Turing, Darwin Blake, Lennon/McCartney Pankhurst, Shakespeare, Guy Fawkes We might not like to hear the things they taught us But it's deeds that stand time We walk beneath a canopy of stars This immigrant nation We are Albion the Fair Peter Pan, The Green Man Faerie Queens and Aslan Unicorns and dragons Legends take on many different guises Trillian and Dan Dare The Beast of Bodmin to Milk Wood It's elementary my dear Watson You don't have to have lived in order to live on We ride in the company of cabbages and kings Poets and the dreamers We are Albion the Fair The Great Fires of the ages cannot consume us Because we're seekers, explorers, protesters and innovators We're Skara Brae and MS Windrush Adversity, victory, challenge and opportunity We're Diggers, Jarrow Marchers Wat Tyler and Mary Secole We're The Rocket, Concorde and TSR-2 A lineage of mothers to daughters Like tragic Campbells from father to son Oates may yet be some time And Jimmy still grieves While we shed a tear And crack a smile At our diminished Empire and heroic misfortunes We fly chasing down the shadows of our past Soaring with the bluebirds We are Albion the Fair We glide in the slipstream of the light Far beyond horizons We are Albion the Fair As legacies collide a truth appears at last We are moulded by the sights and sounds of the lands through which we pass Oh Albion the Fair, legends linger, heart remains When his people need him most The King shall come again
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Written by: Christopher Harrison, Gary Mackenzie, Matthew Howes, Ralph Blackbourn, Tom Halley
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