Songs:An English Moment (77078)
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Lyrics
When I was a young man, a lad of nine or ten, Late at night through the hedgerows I’d walk to the Ex River bend The moon was new but the stars did shine from walls of Devon stone When I was a young man I dreamed this was my home. A thousand greens and yellows lay like quilts upon the land. Held in place by rows of stone from ancient shepherds hands. The jackdaws stole the rainbow as I ran the foxes down We caught sticklebacks with jam-jar lures and cycled through the town. Lapwings glide among the ghylls, heather lines the trail Grouse are staring dumbly through the mist and falling hail This was an English moment that is forever mine I climbed the walls the Romans left behind and chased them back through time. When I was a young man adrift upon the Dales I met a girl beside the bridge across the River Swale Her forebears roamed the Cotswolds and held the Normans there There was Saxon fire deep in her eyes, and Dog-Rose in her hair. Sixteen generations since the brothers went to sea Richard fought the Spanish fleet off Plymouth and Torquay John set sail for America in a cold Southampton rain And though it’s been four hundred years their blood runs in my veins. When I was an old man I walked the long way home With memories as yellow as a wall of Sherbourne stone. The Old Bridge Inn at Topsham was my refuge from the air Though the Queen once called within those walls I found a welcome there. Though the Queen once called within those walls I found a welcome there.
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 | Acoustic Guitar 8,480 items |
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