《A Place Called England》歌词

歌曲： A Place Called England

所属专辑：An Introduction to June Tabor

歌手： June Tabor

时长： 04:42

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A place called England - June Tabor[00:00:00]

Written by：Holland'[00:00:01]

I rode out on a bright May morning[00:00:14]

Like a hero in a song[00:00:16]

Looking for a place called England[00:00:19]

Trying to find where I belong[00:00:22]

Couldn't find the old flood meadow[00:00:25]

Or the house that I once knew[00:00:28]

No trace of the little river[00:00:31]

Or the garden where I grew[00:00:34]

I saw town and I saw country[00:00:42]

Motorway and sink estate[00:00:45]

Rich man in his rolling acres[00:00:47]

Poor man still outside the gate[00:00:50]

Retail park and burger kingdom[00:00:53]

Prairie field and factory farm[00:00:56]

Run by men who think that England's[00:00:59]

Only a place to park their car[00:01:01]

But as the train pulled from the station[00:01:09]

Through the wastelands of despair[00:01:12]

From the corner of my eye[00:01:15]

A brightness filled the filthy air[00:01:18]

Someone's grown a patch of sunflowers[00:01:21]

Though the soil is sooty black[00:01:24]

Marigolds and a few tomatoes[00:01:27]

Right beside the railway track[00:01:30]

Down behind the terraced houses[00:01:37]

In between the concrete towers[00:01:40]

Compost heaps and scarlet runners[00:01:43]

Secret gardens full of flowers[00:01:46]

Meeta grows the scent of roses[00:01:49]

Right beneath the big jet's path[00:01:52]

Bid a fortune for her garden[00:01:54]

Eileen turns away and laughs[00:01:57]

So rise up George and wake up Arthur[00:02:11]

Time to rouse out from your sleep[00:02:13]

Deck the horse in the sea-green ribbons[00:02:16]

Drag the old sword from the deep[00:02:19]

Hold the line for Dave and Daniel[00:02:22]

As they tunnel through the clay[00:02:25]

While the oak in all its glory[00:02:28]

Soaks up sun for one more day[00:02:30]

And come all you at home with freedom[00:02:38]

Whatever the land that gave you birth[00:02:41]

There's room for you both root and branch[00:02:44]

As long as you love the English earth[00:02:46]

Room for vole and room for orchid[00:02:49]

Room for all to grow and thrive[00:02:52]

Just less room for the fat landowner[00:02:55]

On his arse in his four-wheel drive[00:02:58]

England is not flag or Empire[00:03:15]

It is not money it is not blood[00:03:18]

It's limestone gorge and granite fell[00:03:21]

It's Wealden clay and Severn mud[00:03:23]

It's blackbird singing from the may-tree[00:03:26]

Lark ascending through the scales[00:03:29]

Robin watching from your spade[00:03:32]

And English earth beneath your nails[00:03:34]

So here's two cheers for a place called England[00:03:42]

Badly used but not yet dead[00:03:45]

A Mr. Harding sort of England[00:03:48]

Hanging in there by a thread[00:03:51]

Here's two cheers for the crazy Diggers[00:03:54]

Now their hour shall come around[00:03:56]

We should plant the seed they saved us[00:03:59]

Common wealth and common ground[00:04:02]

Here's two cheers for the crazy Diggers[00:04:15]

Now their hour shall come around[00:04:18]

We should plant the seed they saved us[00:04:21]

Common wealth and common ground[00:04:24]