Pieces of 79 and 15 Drifting along a jumbly scene Pieces of 79 and 15 Drifting along a jumbly scene 79 Out of work people Sitting on top of a barberous pole St...

Jimmy Wilson had a glass eye, I could see it And he stuttered sometimes And he needed a girl friend night times Didn't know how to go about it Poor Jimmy Wilson...

Spoke the Queen of Dreams I was Lord of the Forest Walked within her paths Sheltered within her bowers Pine needles for my pillow The dove my only true friend I...

We met when you were still a girl In nineteen sixty eight You wore a white dress and a hat I touched the hand of fate Your sweet voice took my breath away Your ...

I drew the blade across my wrist To see how it would feel Looked into the future There was nothing to reveal For we were just the product Of the ever spinning w...

You look to me a sad young man Down is where you're going You've blindly found an easy way You think that it's not showing Is this what you want Is this what y...

The hands on the clock keep turning round They point to the time of the day The time means nothing with you by my side Though some time I'll be on my way Down ...

I must have been the saddest man Who ever wrote a love song For when I spoke of ways and means I knew it would not last long After all the years The growing pai...

July the fourth in the market town Farmers have come for miles around Bringing their wives and children A farmer stands with his youngest son Watching their sh...

Once I sat upon a hill To watch the world go by My friend the young magician Had forbidden me to cry But I was the comedian With the laughs in short supply Shi...

Simple visions come to me I was blind but now I see Simple visions of my soul Cut in pieces now I'm whole Simple visions from the heart Once I faltered at the ...

You're my secret You're my inspiration You're my journey You're my destination You have always Been so close and yet so far away You're my best friend You're my...

The rose buds are hard and firm; Erect and proud they stand On slender stems, Wrapped in silk And tied with a velvet ribbon "Tie the ribbon in my hair," She sa...

The question was survival The answer was myself I was on the inside looking out You took me to the limit But you only took yourself You were on the outside look...

I've been many places, I've passed through many cities Paris to Toronto and the rest The travelling can bring you down, you're always on your own But I see frie...

I can hear you Like the rain that falls so sweetly I can hear you Like the sun that dries the fields And feeds the grain I can hear your spirit Singing sweet re...

When I was a young man I wasted my days Dreaming of fortune and fame Now as I look back, I can see the mistakes It's time to move on for I'm starting over A ki...

It seems that loving is a game that I can't win No sooner are you here than gone again Is there nothing I can say To change your mind and stay Alone with you is...

The woman moves in mysterious ways Her miracles to defend She is patient as your enemy Triumphant as your friend She lures her prey with sleight of hand And sco...

The night sky hung so heavy The wet road shone so bright Reflecting back my headlights As I drove on in the night To Stormy Down I drew into a lay-by My eyes w...

The sky was like a crystal, it was sapphire blue I was like a kid again, so were you It's a strange day, a strange day over the hill The sun came round to poli...

I've got something richer than money I've got something sweeter than honey I've got someone funnier than funny Sweetling I've got you Sweetling I've got you I ...

You come knocking at my door 'Cause no-one wants you around Should I swallow my pride Forget what happened before When I found out You were fooling around with ...

Where are the tears That you should be crying right now I see the world weariness In your eyes I hear your voice Soft and sad Yet your laughter rings Like caril...

My ship sails in On a cloud of broken promises It's just not true Not a single word she says Time will tell Whether I can change my ways It might take years It ...

We thank you for the wind and rain The sunshine and the flowers We thank you for the moon and stars The minutes and the hours We live each day as best we can An...

If in some capricious moment I should give you cause to fear Then you have but to remember That my being here is mere fortune For the rules have laid down To gu...

In the darkened room her face was just a shadow You might have been a dream, perhaps you were The pillow dried your tears The sadness in your eyes As time goes ...

Such a strange affair, here today and gone tomorrow What a way to go, such a crazy note of sorrow Some guy will make a fortune with a remedy for broken hearts D...

The storm casts off the shadows as it slips behind the clouds The peacock looks dejected though his tail is standing proud The actor tries to prove that he's th...

The reaper stood before him in the room His melancholy smile matched the gloom He tried to rise but fell back where he lay Tried to speak but stumbled as the se...

In the early dawn the Bishops' men Shivered in the damp But the shiver came not from the cold And spread throughout the camp The trembling horses sensed the fea...

The night was ablaze With the light of a thousand memories Your eyes were on fire With the light of a million stars The clouds went sailing past the moon Like s...

While seasons change in timely way The salt sea ever flows Where open moors lie cold and bleak A single flower grows Though winter snows fall deep and long The...

The bird had silver wings, my friends, And reached out for the sky; It found its wings were broken, It had lost the right to fly The pink-eyed salamander Change...

The village square stands quiet with the curfew still in force The streets are even clear of dogs and whores Like some evil bird of prey the scaffold spreads it...

The signpost stands where the crossways meet There's but one road to the journey's end The wanderer bent with his heavy load Is waiting for a friend The sun si...

The soft blush of evening Returns to the folded hills The sky rains magenta In praise of the shepherd's skills The lion lies down beside the lam At peace in the...

This is the last resort You'll ever know The old straight track The long way back One more familiar face has gone Will you miss me I doubt it There are many mo...

Row upon row Of drab colourless houses Bowing low Before high rise blocks Varicosed housewives With sweaty armpits Scrimping and scrubbing Their husbands' socks...

He came into the shop and looked me straight between the eyes And said "You know I'm Jesus", and I must have looked surprised Because he said "Please don't be ...

The plain stretched out before me as far as the slate grey sky I told her I was leaving with the migrant birds to fly I said she might expect me with the coming...

It was early in the morning And our ship was still at sea, With a lifetime far behind us we were free We had strong hearts and a faith In our good Lord's guidin...

I made a sideways motion Turning a new leaf The single minded miner's girl Was there to share my grief I shivered in the butter wind Three times the cockerel cr...

The heavy air was scented by The disappointed flowers The weatherman had promised them Warm soft summer showers They bowed their weary heads Resigned to wait a ...

The watchers on the hillside stand in silence As the dawn appears Then they gather to their horses in an instant As a sunshaft sears Through the morning mist wh...

The boatman rose to the sound of his heartbeat Loud in the silent approach of the dawn He glanced through the window at mist on the lake Which hung like a shrou...

The soldier smiling softly sings a song of sad farewell As the train pulls out to take him far from home His children waving gaily without knowing he has gone N...

Looks around with angel face She does everything with amazing grace She wears smart clothes but no-one knows She's got nobody waiting at home She is not the on...

Sadness clouds the face of Mother Nature Children dry the tears that she has shed We will light a candle in her darkness Beauty in the eyes of the beloved Ther...

I have people to free, they're depending on me So I can't afford to die Get them safely back, then I won't stay too long I'll be leaving soon for London So I'll...

My love is as the rose As wild and free as I should wish to be Close guarded by the thorns That shield her from the hands that seek to touch The hourglass sand ...

Time is the power The enemy hour The soul survivor of the news The headlines Life is a friend I value its end For I can take it when I choose The deadlines Ti...

To Be Free by Strawbs The gilt-edged invitation came And I said, "What can this mean, To attend the coronation As the first guest of the Queen, And sit upon he...

The willows stand on guard in the dark Where lovers are rowing alone in the park In awe of each other they make a mistake, And find they must spend one more nig...

You talked of me with acid tongue And pointed trembling spiteful hands Your presence almost overwhelmed When Mother Nature tends her young She comforts each and...

My life is never peaceful As I fly me high above For I hover like an eagle With an olive branch of love With the vision of a hunter And the conscience of a dove...

When two separate people Go two separate ways There's too many hours In the long and lonely days When two separate people Make two separate plans There's two po...

The dancing flames grow low Burning embers start to glow Pictures soon will fade Pictures that the flames have made Your hazy wistful face Suddenly is gone with...

Every day and every night I'm thinking of you, thinking of you When I get into bed and turn out the light I'm thinking of you, thinking of you Messing around w...

I'm as the world forever spinning Rekindled by the early rising sun I'm as the road that's ever winding A never ending journey just begun And the wheel turns i...

Like a high tree in the wind you are lost when you're alone Like a wild bird in a cage you are trapped inside your home If you don't accept the plan, you'd bett...

I only have my memories to last me the remainder of my days For time has now decided that we must go our individual ways The warmth I feel inside can more than ...

When you were a child you were a friend of mine And I loved you in my way But though we grew apart, and I lost touch with you It still seems like yesterday I ha...

Where Am I ? I sit here in peaceful meditation by a river Watch my thoughts go floating down the stream of consciousness Never ever changing the direction of m...

When you were young you were protected When you were growing you were sheltered But when you reached your adult years You were left alone And you had no-one to ...

Wake up one day, you're left alone From now on you're on your own The sands of time are running low You'll have nothing left to show The months slip by and chan...

Across the purple sky all the birds are leaving How can they know it's time for them to go Before the winter fire we'll still be dreaming I have no thought of t...

Mirror, mirror, speak the truth I see my age but not my youth Pride comes before a fall The winner's eye is ever small Why Why Why Why I realise it's not too ...

Why Mirror, mirror, speak the truth I see my age but not my youth Pride comes before a fall The winner's eye is ever small Why Why Why Why I realise it's not to...

Late summer time is coming With the trees still sweetly blooming And the wild mountain thyme Growing round the purple heather Will you go, lassie go And we'll ...

I dropped down in the witchwood To see what I could find The trees had taken time out To blow away my mind All that I could hear there Was the sound of my own v...

The wise man came in deep disguise All the way from Mexico We sat in circles on the ground And listened to his words of wisdom He spoke of unclimbed mountain ra...

I sometimes sit and think about Our evenings in the firelight You and I When we were young Laughing at the crazy-patterned shadows That were dancing on the wall...

I see you in the mist across the river of the night You're a shadow of the past that hurts me so The icy stream of nothing runs before my sightless eyes But I'm...

You said you were a virgin when I took you in the park You didn't need a light to help you make it in the dark You took the highest bidder who could satisfy you...