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16 Oct 23 - 06:33 AM (#4191117) Subject: Lyr Add: A Japanese Dream From: GUEST,Graham Dixon 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 GD |