And over'ead an 'eap o' little stars;

The lights o' Charin' Cross and Piccadilly,

I'd swop 'em for the silver of the streams,

When the summer moon is lit and the bats begin to flit

And the dark earth dreams.

I'm goin' back to Blighty, to the little lonesome lanes,

The dog-rose and the foxglove and the ferns,

The sleepy country 'orses and the jolty country wains

And the kindly faces every way you turns;

My little bit o' Blighty is the 'ighway,