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Posted By: Nigel Parsons
11-Nov-14 - 02:49 PM
Thread Name: 'Only remembered' Midlands ITV
Subject: RE: 'Only remembered' Midlands ITV
Recently revived for the stage show of War Horse, using the arrangement by John Tams:

Only Remembered
From a Hymn by Horatius Bonar with music by Ira D Sankey
Arranged (and additional words)by John Tams

Fading away like the stars in the morning,
Losing their light in the glorious sun,
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling?
Only remembered for what we have done.
    Only remembered, only remembered,
    Only remembered for what we have done.
   Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling?
   Only remembered for what we have done.

Horses and men, plowshares and traces,
The line on the land and the paths of the sun.
Season by season we mark nature's graces.
Only remembered for what we have done.
   Only remembered, only remembered,
   Only remembered for what we have done;
   Season by season we mark nature's graces.
   Only remembered for what we have done.

Only the truth in the life we have spoken,
Only the seed that in life we have sown:
These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten:
Only remembered for what we have done.
    Only remembered, only remembered,
    Only remembered for what we have done.
    These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten:
    Only remembered for what we have done.

Who'll sing the anthem, and who'll tell the story?
Will the line hold; will it scatter and run?
Shall we at last be united in glory?
Only remembered for what we have done?
    Only remembered, only remembered,
   and only remembered for what we have done.
   Shall we at last be united in glory?
   Only remembered for what we have done?

For a rendition by John Tams, see The Festival of Remembrance on BBC I-Player (introduction starts 33 minute in)