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The River

from Only Ghosts by Only Ghosts

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Verse 1

from the hilltops to the sea rushing madly sometimes moving slowly
ever onwards overtime unaware of everything that old river winds
from the white tipped gull along the coast a preying heron by a sunbleached rowing boat
through gentle stirring in the weeds tiny boatmen skating through the water weeds

Chorus

hail green and hail gold, hail the new and hail the old
never bought and never sold it's the start of every story told

Verse 2

through dappled orchards in the spring bearing fruit by the meadows with the wild flowers in
hazy summer evenings when crickets sing whirlpools break the surface and are following
through autumn city's through their smoke and din leave behind the traffic and the smell of industry
leaves of golden brown are falling in swept along by the winter snow that's blowing in

Chorus

hail green and hail gold, hail the new and hail the old
never bought and never sold it's the start of every story told

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from Only Ghosts, released July 15, 2015
Written by Kieran Jones

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True stories or fable? In the now or merely written on the wind? Who knows, after all we are all only ghosts.

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