London Can Take It

Now it's eight o'clock
 Jerry is a little bit late tonight
 The dusk is deepening
 Soon the nightly battle of London will be on
 This has been a quiet day for us, but it won't be a quiet night
 The searchlights are in position
 The guns are ready
 The people's army of volunteers is ready
 They are the ones who are really fighting this war
 Brokers, Clerks, Peddlers, Merchants by day
 They are heroes by night
 These are not Hollywood sound effects
 This is the music they play every night in London
 The symphony of war
 London can take it
 London can take it
 London raises her head,
 shakes the debris of a night from her
 hair, and takes stock of the damage done
 The sign of a great fighter in the ring is:
 can he get up from the floor after being knocked down
 London does this every morning
 There is no panic, no fear, no despair, in London Town
 London can take it
 London can take it
 The night is long, but sooner or later the dawn will come