Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Ballad Of Denshaw Mill, artist - Barclay James Harvest.
Date of issue: 31.12.2008
Song language: English
Ballad Of Denshaw Mill |
On a cold starry night in the winter time |
Stood three old men by a mill pond in the moonlight |
And they spoke of their young men in the front line |
How they all wished them home for the Christmas time |
As they spoke from the east came a bright light |
And it sparkled like pure gold in their sad eyes |
And an angel came down on Denshaw Mill |
Spreading her light all around on the Darkside |
Are you blind can you not see |
Do you think that it’s me who deceives? |
He promised to be there if you believe, to carry you home |
A hole as rotten as ever fouled the green earth |
Was this old mill in its day, spoke the angel |
Yet there’s many a poor boy in foreign climes |
Who would think this old mill now a palace fine |
As she spoke from the mill there came laughter |
Came the warm sounds of their young men like a summer breeze |
And they rose in the night like fire bright |
Spreading their light all around on the Darkside |
Are you blind can you not see |
Do you think that it’s me who deceives? |
He promised to be there if you believe, to carry you home |
No-one knows what became of the bonny lads |
Posted missing, lost in action in a far land |
Fools and heroes, gallant men, now side by side |
With the old men who believed they came home that night |
To the warmth of their homes at Christmas time |
To the peace of their homes at Christmas time |