Thanks so much CND for your help. I will go along with your insertion of "PRIDE" in the second line of the first stanza.

"FOR HOW I MIGHT SPEAK" in the first line of the chorus makes sense because I can well remember the difficulties I sometimes had in making myself understood to Londoners in 1959.

The sixth line of the second stanza I have (on good authority - my young daughter) as, "MAKE ALL THAT YOU CAN BOYS, we won't be here long."

The last line I'm told is, "AND THE LETTERS AND CARDS IN THE END CAME TO A STOP"

Thanks again mate. (See, I can speak London-ish still !) :-)