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Thread #168751   Message #4075969
Posted By: The Man from UNCOOL
19-Oct-20 - 10:51 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'The Navvies' by Mick Ryan
Subject: Lyr Req: 'The Navvies' by Mick Ryan
I'm missing the first two verse-lines for this song, not the refrains, (I THINK this is its title, it may be "The Poppies") from "The Navvy's Wife", one of MR's folk operas.
Chorus starts "And everywhere the poppies grow all over England \ every [?each] one the lonely waving of a long forgotten life… "
Any help? Thanks