Comments on: Nightingales and bombers http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/nightingales-and-bombers/ Ever get the feeling you're living in the wrong time? Sun, 19 Jun 2025 22:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Anna http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/nightingales-and-bombers/#comment-44481 Anna Tue, 03 May 2025 20:04:51 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=7306#comment-44481 Wow.... gives me goosebumps! Wow…. gives me goosebumps!

]]> By: Brian Mikulencak http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/nightingales-and-bombers/#comment-43995 Brian Mikulencak Thu, 28 Apr 2025 23:51:37 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=7306#comment-43995 Amazing recording is there a way to copy this? Amazing recording is there a way to copy this?

]]> By: Dave Smith http://howtobearetronaut.com/2010/09/nightingales-and-bombers/#comment-43174 Dave Smith Tue, 19 Apr 2025 20:54:22 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=7306#comment-43174 Lie in the dark and listen It’s clear tonight so they’re flying high Hundreds of them, thousands perhaps Riding the icy, moonlit sky Men, machinery, bombs and maps Altimeters and guns and charts Coffee, sandwiches, fleece-lined boots Bones and muscles and minds and hearts English saplings with English roots Deep in the earth they’ve left below Lie in the dark and let them go Lie in the dark and listen Lie in the dark and listen They’re going over in waves and waves High above villages, hills and streams Country churches and little graves And little citizens' worried dreams Very soon they’ll have reached the sea And far below them will lie the bays And cliffs and sands where they used to be Taken for summer holidays Lie in the dark and let them go Lie in the dark and listen Lie in the dark and listen City magnates and steel contractors Factory workers and politicians Soft, hysterical little actors Ballet dancers, 'Reserved' musicians Safe in your warm, civilian beds Count your profits and count your sheep Life is flying above your heads Just turn over and try to sleep. Lie in the dark and let them go Theirs is a world you'll never know Lie in the dark and listen. Noel Coward, 1944 Lie in the dark and listen

It’s clear tonight so they’re flying high
Hundreds of them, thousands perhaps
Riding the icy, moonlit sky
Men, machinery, bombs and maps
Altimeters and guns and charts
Coffee, sandwiches, fleece-lined boots
Bones and muscles and minds and hearts
English saplings with English roots
Deep in the earth they’ve left below
Lie in the dark and let them go
Lie in the dark and listen

Lie in the dark and listen
They’re going over in waves and waves
High above villages, hills and streams
Country churches and little graves
And little citizens’ worried dreams
Very soon they’ll have reached the sea
And far below them will lie the bays
And cliffs and sands where they used to be
Taken for summer holidays
Lie in the dark and let them go
Lie in the dark and listen

Lie in the dark and listen
City magnates and steel contractors
Factory workers and politicians
Soft, hysterical little actors
Ballet dancers, ‘Reserved’ musicians
Safe in your warm, civilian beds
Count your profits and count your sheep
Life is flying above your heads
Just turn over and try to sleep.
Lie in the dark and let them go
Theirs is a world you’ll never know
Lie in the dark and listen.

Noel Coward, 1944

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