White Cliffs of Dover

MelvilleB · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 8527

One of my favourite golden oldie Katie covers.

(Words by Nat Burton, music by Walter Kent, 1941)
There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see.

There'll be joy and laughter
And peace ever after,
Tomorrow
When the world is free,

The shepherd will count his sheep
The valleys 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.

Patrick71 · **Posted:** May 24, 2008 6:56 pm

MelvilleB wrote:

One of my favourite golden oldie Katie covers.

(Words by Nat Burton, music by Walter Kent, 1941)
There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see.

There'll be joy and laughter
And peace ever after,
Tomorrow
When the world is free,

The shepherd will count his sheep
The valleys 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.

One of my absolute favourites. I really love this song. I´m sad that she played this song only one time (am I right ?) and that it was never published on one of her CD´s.

MelvilleB · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 8527

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One of my absolute favourites. I really love this song. I´m sad that she played this song only one time (am I right ?) and that it was never published on one of her CD´s.

To the best of my knowledge that is true.

Ronald · **Posted:** May 24, 2008 7:11 pm

A brilliant song. This one should be released some day in some sort of "lost recording box"

Last year I spend my holiday in the UK. I used the channel tunnel between Calais and Folkestone, when I drove through Dover, guess what song I played in the car? :approve:

Patrick71 · **Posted:** May 24, 2008 7:18 pm

Ronald wrote:

I used the channel tunnel between Calais and Folkestone, when I drove through Dover, guess what song I played in the car? :approve:

Probably "White Cliffs of Dover"? :mrgreen:

Nammzi · **Posted:** May 24, 2008 7:21 pm

I absolutely love this song. Katie sings it so well, and I think that it is one of my favourite of her songs. I can't remember where I put it in my list. I remember listening to it for the first time lying on my bed, and I loved the part where her voice went high on the "blue birds over...".

loco · **Posted:** May 24, 2008 8:14 pm

definitively one of my favourites, it is very special for me, because this song always calms me down, nothing can disturb my tranquility when i'm listening to white cliffs of dover being sung by katie

GOOD

DavidA · **Posted:** May 25, 2008 12:16 am

Sorry I have to sound a discordant note here. I seem to remember talking about this before but it's quite right that Katie sang this once only. It's unarguably Vera Lynn's song and always will be. The only other singer that could lay claim to it is Katherine Jenkins who sang it as a duet with Vera at the VE Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square.
Vera kind of handed the mantle of 'forces sweetheart' on to her that night.
Katie sings it beautifully of course but I'm sure she only ever saw it as a one-off.

JosCR66 · **Posted:** May 25, 2008 9:50 am

I´m going Halfway up the Hindu Kush with this statement (my 500th post):
It may have been a one-off, but she pull it off really well. I love the fact that you can hear the audience in this one, which gives the song some added power. Really nice!!! :approve:

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

Absolutely amazing song. I do hope, that Katie releases that song one day.

For me also very underrated in our ranking.

DavidA · **Posted:** Jun 1, 2008 10:04 pm

KEWA wrote:

Absolutely amazing song. I do hope, that Katie releases that song one day.

For me also very underrated in our ranking.

It's Vera Lynn's song and I'm sure Katie would say the same. I shouldn't think she'll ever release it.

KEWA · **Joined:** Mar 25, 2008 **Posts:** 9360

DavidA wrote:

KEWA wrote:

Absolutely amazing song. I do hope, that Katie releases that song one day.

For me also very underrated in our ranking.

It's Vera Lynn's song and I'm sure Katie would say the same. I shouldn't think she'll ever release it.

Anyway: It would be great.

Aekesis · **Posted:** Jun 3, 2008 10:57 pm

But the only time she sang it was just wonderful... Loving it and loving Katie more and more... Her music is a whole form of art. Amazing... :bow:

DavidA · **Posted:** Jun 3, 2008 11:02 pm

Aekesis wrote:

... Her music is a whole form of art.

That's a good way to describe it ..... but it needs a name...

Aekesis · **Posted:** Jun 3, 2008 11:08 pm

DavidA wrote:

That's a good way to describe it ..... but it needs a name...

You're right... But I don't think I could help you right now, my heads is full of stars :love:

(ok that's hearts and then ? :lol:

). Maybe I'll wake up abruptly this night with a name :rofl:

Aekesis · **Posted:** Jun 5, 2008 11:07 pm

Couldn't thank you enough Barbara, I'm listenning to the video you sent me two days ago and I'm fond of it. This performance is just perfect, I am so amazed. Nothing superfluous, just pure beauty and a heavenly voice. I won't spend my life waiting for an angel to descend, he's already here... :love:

Mariska · **Posted:** Oct 21, 2008 1:30 pm

dont think i ever listened to it before, shame on me

love the way she sings it,great cover

Siocnarf360 · **Posted:** Nov 2, 2008 10:13 pm

I didn't make a comment at first because I didn't know the song, but I'm very happy that I do know it now, because it's just brilliant, it's like sweets for the ears :music:

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