Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Country Life , by - Show Of Hands. Song from the album Country Life, in the genre Музыка мираRelease date: 20.03.2006
Record label: Hands on
Song language: English
Country Life |
| Working in the rain cutting down wood |
| Didn’t do my little brother much good |
| Lost two fingers ina chainsaw bite |
| All he does now is drink and fight |
| Sells a bit of grass hots up cars |
| Talks of travel never gets far |
| Loves his kids left his wife |
| An everyday story of country life |
| And the red brick cottage where I was born |
| Is the empty shell of a holiday home |
| Most of the year there’s no-one there |
| The village is dead and they don’t care |
| Now we live on the edge of town |
| Haven’t been back since the pub closed down |
| One man’s family pays the price |
| FOr another man’s visio of country life |
| My old man is eighty four |
| His generation won the war |
| He left the farm forever when |
| They only kept on one in ten |
| Landed gentry county snobs |
| Where were you when they lost their jobs |
| No-one marched or subsidised |
| To save a country way of life |
| Silent fields empty lanes |
| Drifting smoke distant flames |
| Picture postcard hills on fire |
| Cattle burning in funeral pyres |
| Out to graze they look so sweet |
| We hate the blood we want the meat |
| Buy me a beer I’ll take my knife |
| Cut you a slice of country life |
| If you want cheap food well here’s the deal |
| Family farms are brought to heel |
| Hammer blows of size and scale |
| Foot and mouth the final nail |
| The coffin of our English dream |
| Lies out on the village green |
| While agri-barons CAP in hand |
| Strip this green and pleasant land |
| Of meadow, woodland, hedgerow, pond |
| What remains gets built upon |
| No trains, jobs |
| No shops, no pubs |
| What went wrong |
| Country life |
| It’s a little bit of country life |