One of the first professional orchestra engagements that I ever had was to accompany Vera Lynn.
Dame Vera was Britain’s beloved “Forces Sweetheart” during WW2. Her most famous song was:
There’ll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow, just you wait and see
The American lyricist, Nat Burton, wrote his lyric (perhaps unaware that the bluebird is not indigenous to Britain, though the migrant Swallow ‘Bluebird’ is a well known British harbinger of Spring and Summer).
When I was teaching elementary school, I always had the choir sing this song for Remembrance Day.
A good place to see Bluebirds is in Forks of the Credit Park near Caledon which I visited today.
Other birds:
Park views:
Some botany:
SONG LYRICS
The shepherd will tend his sheep
The valley will bloom again
And Jimmy will go to sleep
In his own little room again
There’ll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow, just you wait and see – Nat Burton
Miles Hearn