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Keep the Home-Fires Burning (Till the Boys Come Home) is a British patriotic First World War song composed in 1914 by Ivor Novello with words by Lena Guilbert Ford (whose middle name was sometimes printed as "Gilbert"). The song was published first as "'Till the Boys Come Home" on 8 October 1914 by Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew Ltd. in London. A new edition was printed in 1915 with the name Keep the Home-Fires Burning. The song became very popular in the United Kingdom during the war, along with It's a Long Way to Tipperary. James F. Harrison recorded Keep the Home-Fires Burning in 1915, as did Stanley Kirkby in 1916. Another popular recording was sung by tenor John McCormack in 1917, who was also the first to record It's a Long Way to Tipperary in 1914. (See External links below to hear these recordings of Keep the Home-Fires Burning.) Other versions include one by Frederick J. Wheeler and one by the duet Reed Miller & Frederick Wheeler. There is a misconception that Ivor Novello's mother wrote the lyrics for the song (propagated—for example—by patter in recorded performances of British musical comedy duo Hinge and Bracket) but Lena Ford (an American) was a friend and collaborator of Novello, not a blood relation. more »

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Love in a instant starts at a distance
Still shining bright
Space inbetween us, truth it will keep us
Close for all time

Our heart goes on and on
Our heart beating like a drum
In the dark you made me strong 
Like you've always done

I will carry you home
I will carry you home
You're in my heart and in my bones
I will carry you home

Lost in a moment, you keep me going
When I am blue
Now that it's over, still I am stronger 
As if I never knew you

Our heart goes on and on
Our heart beating like a drum
In the dark you made me strong
Like you've always done

I will carry you home
I will carry you home
You're in my heart and in my bones
I will carry you home

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Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA) is an organisation initially set up by seven (now eight) European newspapers in March 2015, to improve journalism in Europe. The group aims to share content and technology practice within the transformation the journalism industry is currently experiencing, in an environment characterised by rapid growth in Internet-based readers. The members of LENA are Die Welt (Germany), El País (Spain), La Repubblica (Italy), Le Figaro (France), Le Soir (Belgium), Swiss German-language newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, French-language newspaper Tribune de Genève and Polish-language newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. These publications have a joint readership of seven million, in addition to 43 million unique Internet users. Javier Moreno Barber,… more »

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