The Last Farewell
Titel: The Last Farewell
Längd: 4:03
Kompositörer: Roger Whittaker och Ronald Arthur Webster
Utgivare: Croma Music
Inspelningsdatum: 1976-02-02/03
Inspelningstid: 20:00-23:00, 23:30-02:30, 03:00-06:00 och 06:30-09:30
Inspelningsplats: The Jungle Room, Graceland – Memphis, TN
Matrix: FWA5 0667
Tagning master: mix av 5 och 3
Producent: Felton Jarvis
Studiotekniker: Brian Christian
Musiker:
Gitarr: James Burton
Gitarr: John Wilkinson
Gitarr: Charlie Hodge
Gitarr: Bill Sandford
Bas: Jerry Scheff
Bas: Norbert Putnam
Trummor: Ronnie Tutt
Piano: Glen D. Hardin
Piano: David Briggs
Elektriskt piano: Bobby Emmons
Kör/bakgrundssångare: Kathy Westmoreland
Kör/bakgrundssångare: Myrna Smith
Kör/bakgrundssångare: J.D. Sumner & The Stamps
Pålagt i efterhand:
Sträng- och blåsinstrument
Första utgivning: From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee (APL1-1506)
Även utgiven på bland annat:
The Last Farewell / It’s Easy For You (RCA 459)
50th Anniversary Special Extended Play Edition (RCAT 459)
Elvis Forever Vol. 4 (NL 89870)
The Definitive Love Album (PL 90063 & PD 90063)
1987 – Ten Years After – The Elvis Presley Commemorative Album (RCA 6.11503 & RCA 8.11503)
We Love Elvis Vol. 2 (B18D-41038~40)
Het Mooiste Van Elvis Presley (PD 74595)
The Romantic (ENTCD9004)
The Elvis Collection (RDCD Z87091ZZ)
Alternativa versioner:
Förkortad version med bortklippt vers The Definitive Love Album (PD 90063)
Text:
There’s a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for Old England she sails
Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
I’ve heard there’s a wicked war a-blazing
And the taste of war I know so very well
Even now I see that foreign flag a-raising
Their guns on fire as we sail into Hell
I have no fear of death, it brings no sorrow
But how bitter will be this last farewell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
Though death and darkness gather all about me
And my ship be torn apart upon the seas
I shall smell again the fragrance of these islands
And the heaving waves that brought me once to thee
And should I return safe home again to England
I shall watch the English mist roll through the Dale
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
For you are beautiful, I have loved you dearly
More dearly than the spoken word can tell
