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martin simpson - ridgeway lyrics

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the sun warms my bones and the lazy air rises, lifts red kite and buzzard in effortless spirals
i have missed the kite, the whistling gleaner, just as i miss the wolf and the bear, and i remember, i remember, i remember before you were there

i woke up from my long sleep, shivered from my cold dreams, made myself a warm coat, a coat of richest green, a coat of oak and ash and elm, beech and lime and alder, all the trees of england and the finest ever seen

he worshipped in his rings of stone, he clawed and dug his hills of soil, he cut my coat with my own bones, turned to metal in his fires, his children wonder at his toil, i find little to admire

first he cut for shelter, then he cut to clear for cattle, then he cut for the smelter and he always cut to burn, cut the oaks for battleships, cut potplot for his rifles, cut and kept on cutting as if he’d never learn

the sheep graze, my coat is gone, there’s a pass along my bare back, feet have worn away my skin to make the ridgeway track

the sun warms my bones and the lazy air rises, lifts red kite and buzzard and effortless spirals, i have missed the kite, the whistling gleaner, just as i miss the wolf and the bear, and i remember, i remember, i remember before you were there

- martin simpson lyrics

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