About The Isle of Jersey, Channel Islands
Music of Jersey
The contents of this page are from Geraint Jennings' web site Les Pages Jeriaises, where there is a lot more music, poems and much more in the ancient language of Jersey.
"Beautiful Jersey" The PDA tour group learned this song and sang along with our dinner hosts at Trinity Hall in Jersey in 1998. Listen to the song, sung by Geraint himself.
There's a spot that I love that I ne'er can forget,
Tho' far I may roam 'twill be dear.
For its beauty will linger in memory yet,
Where'er o'er the world I may steer.
Dear Jersey, fair Isle, of the ocean the queen,
Thy charms are so many and rare;
For love finds a home 'mid each beauteous scene,
My heart ever longs to be there.Beautiful Jersey, gem of the sea,
Ever my heart turns in longing to thee;
Bright are the mem'ries you waken for me,
Beautiful Jersey, gem of the sea.On thy shores I have wandered in glad days of yore,
With one who is dear to my heart.
And the love-links will bind us as one evermore,
Although for a while we must part.
And oft in my dreams do I see the dear place
The dear little Isle of the sea,
And in fancy I gaze on a sweet loving face,
The face that is dearest to me.Beautiful Jersey, gem of the sea,
Ever my heart turns in longing to thee;
Bright are the mem'ries you waken for me,
Beautiful Jersey, gem of the sea.
Updated February 19, 2022
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