Oh England my lionheart

I'm in your garden fading fast in your arms

The soldiers soften, the war is over

The air-raid shelters are blooming over

Flapping umbrellas fill the lanes

My London Bridge in rain again



Oh England my lionheart

Peter Pan steals the kids in Kensington Park

You read me Shakespeare on the Rolling Thames

That Old River Poet that never ever ends

Our thumping hearts hold the ravens in



Oh England my lionheart

I don't want to go



Oh England my lionheart

Dropped from my black spitfire to my funeral barge

Give me one kiss in appleblossom

Give me one wish and I'd be wassailing

In the orchard my English Rose

Or with my shepherd who'll bring me home



Oh England my lionheart

I don't want to go