page_title: Sunset (bugle call)
section_title: Lyrics
hierarchical_section_title: Sunset (bugle call) / Lyrics
caption_attribution_description: English: On Board HMS King George V, November 1942 Four Royal Marine buglers at sunset lowering the flag on board HMS KING GEORGE V.
context_page_description: "Sunset", also known as the "Retreat Call", is a bugle call played in United Kingdom and British Commonwealth countries to signal the end of the official military day. In common with all bugle calls, it consists only of notes from a single overtone series. This allows it to be playable on a bugle or equivalently on a trumpet without moving the valves.
  The call is regularly heard performed in an arrangement for full military band by Captain A.C. Green, who was Director of the Royal Naval School of Music's Junior Wing on the Isle of Man.
  The arrangement was composed aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth in response to Admiral Fisher's desire for a "spectacular show" and was first performed in 1932 by the Massed Bands and Bugles of the Mediterranean Fleet. The Sunset call is now a regular part of the Royal Marines' "Beat the Retreat" ceremony, the call's melody also gives its name to "Sunset Parades" given in commemoration of former military conflicts. It is traditional to stand for the performance of the piece.
  Trumpet & Bugle Calls for the British Army marks this call for Royal Artillery units only. The call would then be sounded on an E♭ Cavalry Trumpet.
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  Sunset in the western sky,
  
  Darkness falls o'er land and sea
  
  Praise, Lord, we raise to you
  
  This night and for evermore.
  
  We think of loved ones near and far
  
  And those who've fought the fight before
  
  Keep safe your people, Lord
  
  This night and for evermore.
  
  Keep safe your people, Lord
  
  This night and for evermore
  
  This night and for evermore.
  Lyrics: Tim Marshall (Originally written for Festival of Remembrance 2009)
  Arr: David Cole
caption: Four Royal Marine buglers sound "sunset" at the lowering the flag on board HMS King George V in 1942
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