"November Night" lyrics - CLIFF RICHARD

Across the wet November night
The church is bright with candlelight
And waiting Evensong, [2x]
A single bell with plaintive strokes
Pleads louder than the stirring oaks
The leafless lanes along. [2x]

It calls the choirboys from their tea
And villagers, the two or three,
Damp down the kitchen fire [2x]
Let out the cat, and up the lane
Go paddling through the gentle rain
Of misty Oxfordshire [2x]

On country morning sharp and clear
The penitent in faith draw near
And kneeling here below [2x]
Partake the heavenly banquet spread
Of sacramental Wine and Bread
And Jesus' presence know [2x]

And must that plaintive bell in vain
Plead loud along the dripping lane?
And must the building fall? [2x]
Not while we love the church and live
And of our charity will give
Our much, our more, our all [2x]