Islands of Greece are green and beautiful, Green and beautiful, Where the olive trees grow In the field below, But high on the cliffs the guns are hidden there, Guns are hidden there, In a cavern of stone, Guns of Navarone.
There is another isle as beautiful Where the laurel once bloomed, Here on this island known as Kheros Two thousand soldiers are doomed.
Now here is the problem how to rescue them From a crushing defeat When high on the cliffs The guns of Navarone block His Majesty's fleet.
So in the face of odds impossible Secret saboteurs in a fisherman's skiff Headed for the cliff.
Six men come to save two thousand men Two thousand men, the brave and the bold For whom the bells have tolled. Six men come to the scale the hills above Here where the gods are, Think what the odds are - six men.
Come from the sea with nitroglycerine, Nitroglycerine and a ladder of rope And a thing called hope. Six flies climb the Nazi spider web, Carefully set the charge and the fuse, So little time to lose.
Tick-tock, swiftly tick the hands of doom, Ev'rything reckoned, Time to the second - Contact!
Spark and a boom the flames are going up, Guns are blowing up Thru the thundering roar Steam the men-of-war. Yas-su, God speed to the gallant men, misson accomplished, Farewell my friends, And so the legend ends.
Yas-su, toll the bells of Navarone, Safe be your journey, Fair wind attends you. Yas-su.
Now on the island green and beautiful With the morn again, Hope is born again. Free! We shall be free, live and be free! Free! Free!