Tis A Story That Shall Live For Ever - Stanley Kirkby sings of Robert Falcon Scott from was malaysia a british colony Watch Video

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'Tis A Story That Shall Live For Ever<br/><br/>Sung by Stanley Kirkby<br/><br/>In 1910, a team of British explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott set out on an expedition to Antarctica.<br/><br/>This song pays tribute to Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition.<br/><br/>This is a descriptive song with recitation. It was written by Paul Pelham and Lawrence Wright.<br/><br/>What a glorious tale again is told<br/>Of heroism grand,<br/>Of British men with British hearts,<br/>Out in the Great White Land,<br/>A band of heroes, brave and true,<br/>See standing, side by side,<br/>Amidst eternal ice and snow,<br/>All faithful till they died.<br/><br/>'Tis a story that shall live for ever,<br/>As long as the world shall be,<br/>Of the men who died side by side,<br/>Over the frozen sea;<br/>All honour to the Sons of England,<br/>Inscribed shall be each name,<br/>In letters bold of brightest gold,<br/>On the Nation's Scroll of Fame.<br/>'Tis a Fame<br/><br/>What a glorious lesson to be learn'd,<br/>The mem'ry shall remain,<br/>Their great and noble sacrifice<br/>Can never be in vain,<br/>And tho' no sculptured monument<br/>Can mark their resting place,<br/>Their deeds have rais'd a monument<br/>That time cannot efface.<br/><br/>'Tis a story that shall live for ever,<br/>As long as the world shall be,<br/>Of the men who died side by side,<br/>Over the frozen sea;<br/>All honour to the Sons of England,<br/>Inscribed shall be each name,<br/>In letters bold of brightest gold,<br/>On the Nation's Scroll of Fame.<br/>'Tis a Fame<br/><br/>I can see a sturdy little ship,<br/>Breasting the ocean wave,<br/>I can see a little band of men,<br/>Eager, strong and brave,<br/>I can see the Ice-bound coast line,<br/>Of that grim and silent shore,<br/>And then the icy desert,<br/>Where the deadly blizzards roar,<br/>The last farewells are spoken,<br/>For some of them must go,<br/>Into the unknown perils,<br/>Of a wilderness of snow.<br/>And then a blank as months go by,<br/>And who can tell the tale.<br/>Of how that gallant band of men--<br/>Succeeded, but to fail,<br/>Of one who bore up 'till the last,<br/>Then left without \