Tom: C5
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1. Goodbye England's Rose, may you ever grow in our hearts,
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you were the grace that placed itself where lives were torn apart.
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You called out to our country, and you whispered to those in pain,
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now you belong to heaven and the stars spell out your name
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And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind
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Never fading with the sunset when the rain set in
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And your footsteps will always fall here along England's greenest hills -
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Your candle burned out long before === your legend ever will
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2. Loveliness we've lost, those empty days without your smile,
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this torch we'll always carry for a nation's golden child.
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And even though we try, === the truth brings us to tears,
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all our words cannot express the joy you brought us through the years.
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3. Goodbye England's Rose, may you ever grow in our hearts,
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you were the grace that placed itself where lives were torn apart.
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Goodbye England's Rose, from a country lost without your soul,
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who'll miss the wings of your compassion more than you will ever know
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+ And your footsteps will always fall here along England's greenest hills -
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Your candle burned out long before your legend ever will