Reaching back to find
The summers left behind
The village in my mind was always here
The railway tracks have gone
The churchyard’s overgrown
The school was closed in 1917
Forever stays the way it’s always been
Lying on the riverbank to feel the sun
Walk along the village green to see your chosen one
The mornings drifting on
The afternoons so long, so long, so long, so long
Their voices everywhere
The Sunday evening prayers
Fade into the air and disappear
And echo down the ninety missing years
The midday sun at harvest time still burns the fields
Running down the shaded lanes beside the turning wheels
The golden wives and men
Will never come again, again, again, again
Faded like the photographs from years of sun
The choir has gone, the boys and girls
Sing on and on and on and on
The poppies once a year
And carved in stone still clear
The names of fifty heroes in the square
Remembered through the breezes in the air
And I know I’ll never find it anywhere
The village in my mind was never there
Written by William Jones
Published by Summerhouse Music Ltd
credits
from Single Friends,
released May 29, 2011
William Jones: voice, acoustic, electric & acoustic 12-string guitar
Katherine Dow Blyton: voice
Jon Kirby: keyboards
Edwin Pearson: bass
Martin Parker: drums, percussion
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