Lyrics:

In the year of ''39 assembled here the volunteers**lf**In the days when the lands were few**lf**Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn**lf**The sweetest sight ever seen**lf****lf**And the night followed day**lf**And the story tellers say**lf**That the score brave souls inside**lf**For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas**lf**Ne''er looked back, never feared, never cried**lf****lf**Don''t you hear my call though you''re many years away**lf**Don''t you hear me calling you**lf**Write your letters in the sand**lf**For the day I take your hand**lf**In the land that our grandchildren knew**lf****lf**In the year of ''39 came a ship in from the blue**lf**The Volunteers came home that day**lf**And they bring good news of a world so newly born**lf**Though their hearts so heavily weigh**lf**For the earth is old and grey, little darlin'' we''ll away**lf**But my love this cannot be**lf**For so many years have gone though I''m older but a year**lf**Your mother''s eyes from your eyes cry to me**lf****lf**Don''t you hear my call though you''re many years away**lf**Don''t you hear me calling you**lf**Write your letters in the sand**lf**For the day I take your hand**lf**In the land that our grandchildren knew**lf****lf**Don''t you hear my call though you''re many years away**lf**Don''t you hear me calling you**lf**All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand**lf****lf**For my life**lf**Still ahead**lf**Pity me