The White Cliffs Of Dover (Diatonic)

1941 Wartime song featured and broadcast by Bebe Daniels also sung by Vera Lynn, the forces sweetheart. Tabbed from key, Eb it is 4/4 time sig.

    5   6  6   6   7   7  -7   6 -6 -7
//I'll/nev-er for-get the/peo-ple I met/

-6  -5    6   -6 -6
braving those an-gry/

  6    5 -5   6   6   -7  -6 -7
skies; I re-/mem-ber well as the/

 6   6    5     5   -4   -4  -6  6   -5
sha-dows fell, The/light of hope in their/

 6    6  -5    6   6 -5  5  5
eyes and/Tho' I'm far a-way I/

 -4    5   -5   -4   4      4     7~~~~~~~
still can hear them say, "Thumbs//up!"----/

~~ 4   4    4   -4    -4  -6      5     6
--For when the/dawn comes/up //There'll be//:


(Chorus) 
  7    7   -7 6   4   -6     -6   -6  6 5   4
Blue-birds/ov-er THE/WHITE CLIFFS OF/DOVER, to-/

-5  -5     5   -4   4   -4   5~~~~~~
mor-row,/ just you wait and/see---/

~~   5     6   7    7   -7  6    4
- There'll be/love and/laughter and/

 -6   -6 -6  6  5    4  -5  -5
peace ev-er/af-ter, to-/mor-row,/

 5   -4    4   -4  4~~~~~~~~  4
When the world is/free.---/- The/

 -6  -5   6    -6  -6   -6    -7
shepherd will tend his/sheep, the/

 6   5   -5    6   6   5     4
val-ley will bloom a-/gain, and/

 -6 -5 6   -6 -6   7   -6 -6   7  -7   7   -7 -6
Jimmy will go to/sleep in his/own lit-tle room a/

 -4        5   6   7    7    7  6   4 
gain. There'll be/Blue-birds ov-er THE/

 -6     -6   -6 6  5   4   -5  -5
WHITE CLIFFS OF/DOVER, to-/mor-row,/

 5   -4   4   -4   4~~~~~~~
just you wait and/see---/ (repeat chorus)


Additional verse same as first verse tabbing.

I may not be near, but/I have no fear,/
His-t'ry will prove it/too, when the/
tale is told 'twill be/as of old for/
truth will al-ways win/through; but/
be I far or near, that/
slo-gan still I'll hear, "Thumbs// up!"-----/--
For when the/dawn comes/up:// There'll be//:

Yours Harmusman