A JAPANESE DREAM

Words & Music – Graham & Bernadette Dixon (Trouble at’ Mill)
Chorus
There’s a flower in a vase on a verge by the side of the road
Where my friend said farewell to this world on the day that he rode
On a Japanese Dream he was free as a bird
The sun on his face and the wind in his hair
Too young to die, too cocky to care
Now there’s only a flower in a vase by the side of the road

Oh the morning is lovely and nature is gay it is plain
All the birds sing their songs as I walk down the old country lane
To that bend in the road where the ash and the willow grow high
All the memories flood back and a tear starts to form in my eye

Chorus

I gather my thoughts as I gaze on this small wayside shrine
But the silence is split as an engine unwinds
Then nine hundred CC’s from Japan lean into the bend
In my minds eye I see the face of my foolhardy friend

Chorus

Just a flower in a vase on a verge by the side of the road

The song can be heard here A Japanese Dream

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