In the year of '39 assembled here the volunteers   In the days when lands were few   Here the ship sailed out into the blue and sunny morn   The sweetest sight ever seen      And the night followed day   And the story tellers say   That the score brave souls inside   For many a lonely day sailed across the milky seas   Never looked back, never feared, never cried      Don't you hear my call though you're many years away   Don't you hear me calling you   Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand   In the land that our grandchildren knew      In the year of '39 came a ship in from the blue   The volunteers came home that day   And they bring good news of a world so newly born   Thought their years so heavenly weigh      For the earth is old and grey, little darling we'll away   But my love this cannot be   For so many years have gone though I'm older but a year   Your mothers eyes from your eyes cry to me      Don't you hear my call though you're many years away   Don't you hear me calling you   Write your letters in the sand for the day I take your hand   In the land that our grandchildren knew      Don't you hear my call though your many years away   Do you hear me calling you   All your letters in the sand cannot heal me like your hand   For my life still ahead, pity me