IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF ENGLAND WHEN IT WAS OUR DARKEST HOUR
SOME BRAVE YOUNG MEN STOOD UP AGAINST THE FOE;
THOUGH THE ODDS WERE STACKED AGAINST THEM YOU WOULD NEVER SEE THEM COWER,
AN INVASION THREAT THEIR TASK TO OVERTHROW.
WHEN THE SCRAMBLE BELL WOULD RING YOU'D SEE THEM RUN OUT TO THEIR PLANES
AND CLIMB UP INTO SUCH A HOSTILE SKY,
WHERE THE BATTLE WOULD ENJOIN HIGH ABOVE THE FIELDS AND LANES,
EACH ONE AWARE THAT THIS TIME HE MIGHT GET BURNED OR DIE.

CHORUS
THEY WERE THE FEW, THEY WERE THE FEW,
THEY STOOD ALONE AGAINST THE ENEMY SO THAT FREEDOM MIGHT WIN THROUGH;
THEY WERE THE FEW IN THEIR AIRFORCE BLUE,
LET'S REMEMBER WHAT THEY DID FOR ME AND YOU,
THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO THE FEW.

WELL, THEIR BOMBERS KEPT ON COMING OUR AIRFIELDS TO DISTROY
BUT OUR HURRICANES AND SPITFIRES STILL THEY MET;
THOUGH OUR BOYS WERE TIRED AND WEARY THEY CONTINUED TO DEPLOY,
THE INVASION PLANS THEY WERE STARTING TO UPSET.
BUT, INSPITE OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS THE PROSPECTS STILL WERE BLEAK,
OUR DEFENCES ON THE VERGE OF GOING DOWN;
A MIRICLE WAS NEEDED TO SURVIVE ANOTHER WEEK,
THEN THE ENEMY CHANGED THEIR TACTICS, THEY STARTED BOMBING LONDON TOWN.

THEY WERE THE FEW, THEY WERE THE FEW,
THEY STOOD ALONE AGAINST THE ENEMY SO THAT FREEDOM MIGHT WIN THROUGH;
THEY WERE THE FEW IN THEIR AIRFORCE BLUE,
LET'S REMEMBER WHAT THEY DID FOR ME AND YOU,
THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO THE FEW.

NOW, GIVEN A TIME OF RESPITE ALL OUR SQUADRONS COULD REGROUP,
A CHANCE TO HAVE THEIR BOMBERS ON THE RUN;
AND WHEN THEY SENT OUT ALL THEY HAD SO MANY FIGHTERS DOWN WOULD SWOOP,
THAT THEY KNEW THE BATTLE IT COULD NOT BE WON.
WE WOULD HAVE FOUGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES, WE WOULD HAVE FOUGHT THEM IN THE HILLS
IF THEIR BARGES CRESSED THE CHANNEL TO INVADE,
BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO BECAUSE OF THE GREAT SKILLS
AND THE COURAGE AND THE BRAVERY THAT THOSE BOYS DISPLAYED.

THEY WERE THE FEW, THEY WERE THE FEW,
THEY STOOD ALONE AGAINST THE ENEMY SO THAT FREEDOM MIGHT WIN THROUGH;
THEY WERE THE FEW IN THEIR AIRFORCE BLUE,
LET'S REMEMBER WHAT THEY DID FOR ME AND YOU,
THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO THE FEW.
THEY WERE THE FEW, THEY WERE THE FEW,
THEY STOOD ALONE AGAINST THE ENEMY SO THAT FREEDOM MIGHT WIN THROUGH;
THEY WERE THE FEW IN THEIR AIRFORCE BLUE,
LET'S REMEMBER WHAT THEY DID FOR ME AND YOU,
THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO THE FEW.
YES, THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO THE FEW.
NEVER WAS THERE SO MUCH OWED BY SO MANY TO SO FEW.

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