C    F  C    F  C    G  C

[Verse]
N.C.        C              F       C
The sun was shining on the English Channel
     F     C       G        C
On a ferry off the coast of France
                        F        C
And it was summer and a pleasant morning
    F     C          G           C
And high above gulls wheeled and danced
          F                  Am  G
And high above the cliffs of morning
          C                       F
The gun emplacements had stood in ranks
N.C.         C    F      C
And I walked over to the railings
    F         C             G       C
And heard the ghosts of the Calgary tanks

[Instrumental]
C    F  C    F  C    G  C

[Verse]
N.C. C            F        C
And  I remembered pictures I'd seen
   F       C         G   C
In history books and magazines
                       F        C
Of three men standing, smoking, staring
 F        C         G     C
Among the dead on a rocky beach
           F                      Am  G
And in the light of that pleasant morning
             C                 F
As we sailed under the cliffs above
N.C.      C            F      C
I thought of all their silent prayers
        F     C               G         C      F  C    G  C
And the final thoughts of the ones they loved

[Verse]
N.C.             C       F       C
That they left behind at prairie stations
F      C        G         C
Waving to their pride and joy
              F       C
Waving to the smiling faces
F       C            G       C
Smiling faces of the soldier boys
            F                 Am  G
No waves of grain could claim the fallen
                  C                F
Just the Channel, cold and grey as steel
N.C.     C           F       C
And no return to the rolling prairie
     F      C          G      C
Or a silent cross on a lonely field

[Instrumental]
C    F  C    F  C    G  C

[Verse]
                           F       C
The sun was shining on the rolling prairie
    F        C        G        C
Far from the Channel, cold and grey
                       F           C
Shone on the families, friends and lovers
       F       C        G         C
Of the prairie boys who fell that day
                   F                  Am  G
But they could not know on that sunny morning
           C                F
The future held for them no joy
N.C.           C       F       C
They'd wait in vain at prairie stations
F       C              G       C
Wait in vain for their soldier boys