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Across the evening sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go? Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming I have no thought of time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes? Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving I do not count the time For who knows where the time goes? Who knows where the time goes? And I am not alone while my love is near me I know it will be so until it's time to go So come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again I have no fear of time For who knows how my love grows? And who knows where the time goes? |
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This train don't carry no gamblers, this train,
This train don't carry no gamblers, this train, This train don't carry no gamblers No crap shooters, no midnight ramblers, This train don't carry no gamblers, this train. Chorus: This train is bound for glory, this train, This train is bound for glory, this train, This train is bound for glory, Don't carry nothin' but the righteous an' the holy This train is bound for glory, this train. This train goes down the track, this train, This train goes down the track, this train, This train goes down the track, And once you're on board you don't come back This train goes down the track, this train (Chorus) This train don't pay no transportation, this train, This train don't pay no transportation, this train, This train don't pay no transportation No Jim Crow and no discrimination, This train don't pay no transportation, this train. (Chorus) |
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Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me
Polly, pretty Polly, come go along with me Before we get married some pleasure to see She got up behind him and away they did ride She got up behind him and away they did ride Over the hills and the valleys so wide They rode a little further and what did they spy They rode a little further and what did they spy But a new-dug grave with a spade lying by Oh Willy, oh Willy, I'm scared of your ways Oh Willy, oh Willy, I'm scared of your ways Scared you might lead my poor body astray Polly, pretty Polly, you've guessed just about right Polly, pretty Polly, you've guessed just about right I've dug on your grave the best part of last night And he stabbed her in the heart and the heart-blood did flow And he stabbed her in the heart and the heart-blood did flow Into her grave pretty Polly did go He threw a little dirt over her and started for home He threw a little dirt over her and started for home Leaving nothing behind but the wild birds to moan And it's debt to the devil, and Willy must pay And it's debt to the devil, and Willy must pay For killing pretty Polly and running away |
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Wondering and waiting, my back agaist the wall
Not a word that passed between us comes to recall Just you shadow at the window as you pass on down the hall You never wanted me and never knew me at all I haven't any picture to set before my eyes Nothing I can blame when the blues start to rise Just the memory of laughter and a living out of lies But if I could change my ways we would never have said goodbye If you ever get the time, please think of me It's a lock that can't be broken and there isn't any key I'm only in your mind, only you can set me free You can't hurt me anymore and it isn't hard to see Someday, someone will leave you and I know you'll feel the same But you'll mark it down to memory and a dream that never came But they are no answers given when love is just a game And you never wanted me and now I feel the same |
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Gold and silver is the autumn
Soft and gentle are her skies Yes I know, are the answers Written in my true love's eyes Autumn's leaving, winter's coming I think that I'll be moving on I've got to leave him and find another I've got to sing my heart's true song Round and round the burning circle All the seasons, one, two, and three Autumn leaves with the winter Spring is born and wanders free Gold and silver burnt my autumns All too soon they'd fade and die And then there were no others Milk and honey were their lives |
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It's a lesson too late for the learning
Made of sand, made of sand In the winking of an eye my soul is turning In your hand, in your hand. Chorus: Are you going away with no word of farewell? Will there be not a trace left behind? I could have loved you better Didn't mean to be unkind But you know that was the last thing on my mind. You had reasons plenty for going This I know, this I know. For the weeds have been steadily growing Please don't go, please don't go. (Chorus) As we walk, my thoughts are a-tumbling Round and round, round and round And the subway beneath my feet is a-rumbling Underground, underground (Chorus) As I lie in my bed in the morning Without you, without you. Every song in my breast dies a-borning Without you, without you. (Chorus) |
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I once loved a lass and I loved her so well
And I hated all others who spoke of her ill. And now she's rewarded me well for my love, For she's gone and she's wed another. And I saw my love up to the church go With bridesmen and bridesmaidens she made a fine show. And I followed on with my heart full of woe For she's gone and she's wed another. I saw my love as she sat down to dine. I sat down beside her and poured the wine. And I thought of the lassie that should have been mine, I thought her sweet company better than meat Now she's gone and she's wed another. All the men in yon forest they asked of me, How many strawberries grow in a salt sea? And I answer them with a tear in my e'e, How many ships sail in the forest? Oh dig me a grave and dig it sae deep, And cover it over with wee flowers sae sweet. And I lay me down for to take a long sleep And maybe in time I'll forget her. So they dug him a grave and they dug it sae deep And they covered it over with wee flowers sae sweet And he lay him down for to take a long sleep And maybe in time he'll forget her. |
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I've been on the road, so long
Been tired and broke, so long I've been to the south where the winds they were warm Travelling the road of no return, so long I've seen what was war, so long The ruins and the scars, so long The mansions of mud, the wounds and the blood Seen the dying of all that was good, so long. Seen the world in the shadow, so long Is its mushrooming cloud, so long And the lies and the greed of the leaders of men Those cheats who would take us to war again, so long. Yet hope is in me, so long For it's love that I see, so long The courage and strenght of the young men's smile The faith that's in a little child, so long I've travelled this road, so long Have been tired and broke, so long I've been to the south where the winds they were warm Travelling the road of no return, so long |
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The dancing plants grow low
Burning embers start to glow The pictures soon will fade Pictures that the flames have made Your hazy, wistful face Suddenly is gone without a trace [Chorus] Summer days I'll float downstream Wondering where the day has been Boats that sail away at night Come the day Have sailed far out of sight Reminiscing summer walks Empty glances, moonlit talks Candyfloss and ice-cream cones Discothques and rolling stones Passing fancies fly away Empty shadows on a sunlit bay [Chorus: x 2] Fotheringay version The dancing flowers grow low Burning embers start to glow The pictures soon will fade Pictures that the flames have made Your hazy, wistful face Suddenly is gone without a trace Reminiscing summer walks Empty glances, moonlit talks Promises that mean so much Broken with a single touch Passing fancies fly away Painting shadows on the sunlit bay [Chorus] Summer days I'll float downstream Wondering where the day has been Boats that sail away at night Come the dawn Have sailed far out of sight Deserted evening warm and still Strangers come and go at will Driftwood on the silent shore Laughter from an open door Friendly faces once again Come inside before it starts to rain [Chorus] |
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