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Thread #67873 Message #4079474
Posted By: Melbert
13-Nov-20 - 11:08 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Only Remembered
Subject: Lyr Add: Only remembered (John Tams)
Joe Offer asked me to post these lyrics after hearing a recording of my rendition. I learned the song from the singing of Bob Fox, who played "the Songman" in the stage musical "Warhorse".
Only Remembered (John Tams, From the singing of Bob Fox)
ONLY REMEMBERED (lyrics by Horatius Bonar with music by Ira D Sankey) (as sung by Mel Barratt, with additions from Bob Fox and John Tams)
Fading away like the stars in the morning, losing their light in the glorious sun. Thus shall 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 earth and the paths of the sun. Season by season we mark natures graces only remembered for what we have done.
Only remembered, only remembered only remembered for what we have done. Season by season we mark natures graces only remembered for what we have done.
Only the truth that in life we have spoken, Only our deeds when our journey is run. These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten only remembered for what we have done. Where are they running? Why are they falng?l Fewer still fewer from what was begun. Ghosts in the morning mist, silently calling only remembered for what we have done.
Only remembered, only remembered only remembered for what we have done. Ghosts in the morning mist, silently calling only remembered for what we have done.
Who’ll sing the anthems and who’ll tell the stories? 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 only remembered for what we have done. Shall we at last be united in glory only remembered for what we have done.