《A Place Called England》歌词

[00:00:00] A place called England - June Tabor

[00:00:01] Written by：Holland'

[00:00:14] I rode out on a bright May morning

[00:00:16] Like a hero in a song

[00:00:19] Looking for a place called England

[00:00:22] Trying to find where I belong

[00:00:25] Couldn't find the old flood meadow

[00:00:28] Or the house that I once knew

[00:00:31] No trace of the little river

[00:00:34] Or the garden where I grew

[00:00:42] I saw town and I saw country

[00:00:45] Motorway and sink estate

[00:00:47] Rich man in his rolling acres

[00:00:50] Poor man still outside the gate

[00:00:53] Retail park and burger kingdom

[00:00:56] Prairie field and factory farm

[00:00:59] Run by men who think that England's

[00:01:01] Only a place to park their car

[00:01:09] But as the train pulled from the station

[00:01:12] Through the wastelands of despair

[00:01:15] From the corner of my eye

[00:01:18] A brightness filled the filthy air

[00:01:21] Someone's grown a patch of sunflowers

[00:01:24] Though the soil is sooty black

[00:01:27] Marigolds and a few tomatoes

[00:01:30] Right beside the railway track

[00:01:37] Down behind the terraced houses

[00:01:40] In between the concrete towers

[00:01:43] Compost heaps and scarlet runners

[00:01:46] Secret gardens full of flowers

[00:01:49] Meeta grows the scent of roses

[00:01:52] Right beneath the big jet's path

[00:01:54] Bid a fortune for her garden

[00:01:57] Eileen turns away and laughs

[00:02:11] So rise up George and wake up Arthur

[00:02:13] Time to rouse out from your sleep

[00:02:16] Deck the horse in the sea-green ribbons

[00:02:19] Drag the old sword from the deep

[00:02:22] Hold the line for Dave and Daniel

[00:02:25] As they tunnel through the clay

[00:02:28] While the oak in all its glory

[00:02:30] Soaks up sun for one more day

[00:02:38] And come all you at home with freedom

[00:02:41] Whatever the land that gave you birth

[00:02:44] There's room for you both root and branch

[00:02:46] As long as you love the English earth

[00:02:49] Room for vole and room for orchid

[00:02:52] Room for all to grow and thrive

[00:02:55] Just less room for the fat landowner

[00:02:58] On his arse in his four-wheel drive

[00:03:15] England is not flag or Empire

[00:03:18] It is not money it is not blood

[00:03:21] It's limestone gorge and granite fell

[00:03:23] It's Wealden clay and Severn mud

[00:03:26] It's blackbird singing from the may-tree

[00:03:29] Lark ascending through the scales

[00:03:32] Robin watching from your spade

[00:03:34] And English earth beneath your nails

[00:03:42] So here's two cheers for a place called England

[00:03:45] Badly used but not yet dead

[00:03:48] A Mr. Harding sort of England

[00:03:51] Hanging in there by a thread

[00:03:54] Here's two cheers for the crazy Diggers

[00:03:56] Now their hour shall come around

[00:03:59] We should plant the seed they saved us

[00:04:02] Common wealth and common ground

[00:04:15] Here's two cheers for the crazy Diggers

[00:04:18] Now their hour shall come around

[00:04:21] We should plant the seed they saved us

[00:04:24] Common wealth and common ground