Yes, Kate was asking a while ago if there were any sleeve notes on the LP.
Here are the words:
Mick
ROLAND'S OAK (Peter Bond)
In a clearing lived a man of hearts whose only family was a forest Through the threatening peep or the chattering creek the earth spoke There were no children playing round his feet and none to listen to his story And the longing grew strong to leave something to show That he's passed through the world, a reminder to grow So he planted a seed so the forest would know - Roland's Oak.
Across a bridge that bears the name of kings the engines shake their drunken rattle And in the names on the side fame and infamy ride through the smoke. And there are streets for generals and boulevards to celebrate the battle. Is it vanity or is it fear of the dark Leads a man to believe he must carve out a mark Like the lovers carve sanity into the bark Of Roland's Oak.
Now in that clearing stands a cenotaph, a lifeless monument to madness, And the tree he had sown, the hope he had grown, fell at a stroke. And there the earth is barren, nothing prospers in that sour stream of sadness. Noone said to the woodcutter, "Stop! Let it be, For there's more than just Roland whose hope's in that tree Will the world be a desert before we can see Roland's Oak?"