Devon 8

Jim Causley

Lời bài hát Devon 8 của Jim Causley

Intro Here’s The House And Here’s The Land Here’s Where Our Old Cottage Stands My Parents Gave All They Could Give And This Is Where My Family Live My Mum Was Raised Under Cob & Thatch An Honest Living They Did Scratch But When Their Cottage Was Condemned Their Country Way Of Life Did End So The Council Moved Them To The Town Expected Just To Settle Down But Long Her Country Heart Did Yearn And To The Country She’d Return They Found This House Like A Devon Dream With Golden Thatch And Walls Of Cream Put In An Offer Without Delay So Us Kids Could Grow Up In A Country Way And Here We Children Roam The Fields Making Dens In Woods Concealed Cycle The Lanes Around About We Know This Country Inside Out We Gather Apples In The Fall Stack The Sacks Against The Wall Help The Farmers Herd The Sheep And Dream Of Summer In Our Sleep Next To Us Is Joyce & Bill Arthur & Unis Up The Hill Old Mrs King In The Farm So Bleak Walks To Chapel Every Week We Know Each Neighbour Name For Name There’s No Strangers In This Lane Always Friendly, Always True Devon People Through And Through The One-Tree Bridge Is Fallen And Gone Where The Sticklebacks Hid Under A Stone Here We Blackberried, Here We Swam Made Out Of Pebbles And Mud A Damn Here The Tall Heron Fished The Stream Here We Watched The Kingfisher Gleam Down The Long Valley The Woodpigeons Cry Where The Whimple To Waterloo Train Steamed By Here’s The House And Here’s The Land Here’s Where Our Old Cottage Stands My Parents Gave All They Could Give And This Is Where My Family Live There’s Some Who Said We Couldn’t Pay Some Who Said We’d Never Stay Some Looked On With Spite And Scorn At The House Where I Was Bred And Born