
Date of issue: 14.02.1998
Song language: English
Green Island |
The island lies like a leaf upon the sea |
Green island like a leaf new fallen from |
The tree |
Green turns to gold as morning breezes |
Gently shake the barley |
Bending the yellow corn |
Green turns to gold, there’s purple |
Shadows on the distant mountains |
And the sun in the yellow corn |
They came in their longships from lands |
Beyond the sea |
They came in their longships, they saw the land was green |
Wind in the barley, trout and salmon |
Leaping in the rivers |
Sun in the yellow corn |
Leaping ashore they slaughtered those |
Who laboured in the barley |
Scything them down like corn |
The longships sailed away and new |
Invaders came |
With long bow and lance bringing death |
In England’s name |
With sword and with mace they went |
Reaping through the fields of barley |
They plundered the yellow corn |
Crop followed crop and prospered in the |
Killing fields of barley |
In the harvest of new young corn |
Marching down the years the men of war |
They came |
With bombs, assassin’s bullets, c. |
s gas |
And guns |
Ghosts from the past are chasing shadows |
Through the fields of barley |
Hiding in the yellow corn |
900 years they’ve tried to trap the wind |
That shakes the barley |
And the sun in the |
Yellow corn |
The island lies like a leaf upon the sea |
Green island like a leaf new fallen from |
The tree |
Green turns to gold as morning breezes |
Gently shake the barley |
Bending the yellow corn |
No force on earth can ever trap the wind |
That shakes the barley |
Or the sun in the yellow corn |
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