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Thread #68392 Message #1151641
Posted By: nutty
01-Apr-04 - 02:17 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Evergreen (Richard Grainger)
Subject: Lyr Add: EVERGREEN (Richard Grainger)
As sung by Firm Friends
EVERGREEN
by Richard Grainger
I've got oak, ash and thorn with summer green leaves
Barley and corn that we gather in sheathes
But when autumn's brown strips the trees to the bone
The leaf of the evergreen lives on
Chorus
Evergreen, evergreen, bring me a leaf from the old evergreen
The oak, ash and thorn , in the autumn are gone
But life still goes on in the old evergreen
In the height of the day he flies in to mind
And lovers walk past me but I know their kind
Though their love, like an oak, in the springtime grows strong
It withers and fades when it's season is done
There is a forest, I know you will find
Where there's all kind of trees with their thorns and their spines
But all will surrender when winter marches in
Where the chilly north wind blows - lives evergreen