Dear Green Place Lyrics
Dear Green Place - Lack Of Limits
Written by：eve Hase/Christian Jakober/Marco Neumann
It was by the clear
Molendinar burn
Where it meets and runs
With the river clyde
And they tell the tale
Of the holy one
Who was fishing down
By the riverside
A holy man from fife he came
His name they say was kentigern
And by the spot were
The fish was caught
The dear green place was born
Now the salmon ran
Through the river stream
And they salted them
By the banks of clyde
And the faces glowed
As the silver flowed
The place arose by the riverside
There was cloth to dye and hose to buy
The traders came from miles around
And they raised a glass to
The dear green place
The place that was a town
There is a town that once was green and a
River flowed to the sea
The river flows forever
On but the dear green place
Is gone
When the furnace came to fire the iron
And folk were thrown from their farmland
Then the irishmen and the highland men
And the hungry men came with willing hands
They wanted work a place
To live their empty bellies
Needed filled
And the farm yard was another world
From the dirty overcrowded mill
Now you may have heard of the foreign trade
And fortunes made by tobacco lords
But the working man slaved his life away
And an early grave was his sole reward
A dreary room a crowded
Slum disease and hunger everywhere
And the price to pay was another day
To fight the anger and despair
There is a town that once was green and a
River flowed to the sea
The river flows forever
On but the dear green place
Is gone
A thousand years have been
Here and gone it is
Gone
Since kentigern saw
The banks of clyde it is gone
How many dreams and
How many tears it is gone
In a thousand years of a
City's life it is
Gone
It was by the clear
Molendinar burn it is gone
Where it meets and runs
With the river clyde it
Is gone
Perhaps tomorrow it
Yet may be it is gone
The dear green place
Again it is gone
Gone
Gone
Gone
Gone
There is a town that once was green and a
River flowed to the sea
The river flows forever
On but the dear green place
Is gone