Keep the Home-Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Come Home)
Composed by Ivor Novello
Key: A
Lyrics by Lena Guilbert Ford
Copyright 1915

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File Created 11-24-2022

Verse 1:

          A        E7       A
They were summoned from the hills
                    Dm       A
They were called in from the glen
        E7                 A
And the country found them ready
       E        B7       E  EM7E7
At the stirring call for men

       A         E7       A
Let no tears add to their hardship
                Dm     A
As the soldiers pass a-long
       C#m                     F#m
And al-though your heart is breaking
        E         F#m   B7E   E6E7
Make it sing this cheer-y song

Chorus:

A                   E    E7
Keep the home-fires burn-ing
F#m                   C#7+  C#7
While your hearts are yearn-ing
D                    A
Though your lads are far away
     B7       E7
They dream of home

A                E   E7
There's a silver lin-ing
F#m                     C#7+ C#7
Through the dark clouds shin-ing
D                    A
Turn the dark clouds inside out
         E    E7   A
Till the boys come home.

Verse 2:

     A          E7     A
Over-seas there came a pleading
               Dm    A
"Help a nation in di-stress!"
       E7                A
And we gave our glorious ladies;
       E       B7    E   EM7E7
Honour made us do no less

       A       E7     A
For no gallant Son of Freedom
              Dm          A
To a tyrant's yoke should bend
      C#m              F#m
And a noble heart must answer
       E      F#m  B7 E        E6E7
To the sacred call of ”Friend."

Chorus Repeat:

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