The Strawbs

Watch my hand See it shakes Trembling as my life blood bleeds Comfortless Superfakes Offering their empty creeds That have faith or substance That change to suit the doubter To satisfy his needs. Rid me of your darkness Lay a little light on me Cloth

Now I'm a union man Amazed at what I am Yes I'm a union man When we meet in the local hall I'll be voting with them all With a hell of a shout, it's "Out brothers, out!" And the rise of the factory's fall Oh, you don't get me, I'm part of the un

Cousins NRG It's really elementary NRG It's time to take inventory Take the time To take some action soon There will be A chain reaction soon Along the backstreets a fire burns Inside Outside NRG It's time to hear the voices NRG It's time to take som

Oh How She Changed - The Strawbs She leaned forward in the lamplight In her eyes an amber glow She was promising the earth And yet somehow saying no We talked of pleasant summer days Kew Gardens, Hampton Court The jewellers where we bought The ring t

Dyfan's tale Of the holy Canon Dale Setting sail Homeward for his lonely cell In your holy ground I found. Peace to dwell The beginning of a world Love entwined Throughout all the world combined In your holy ground I found. Days and day He would go h

Cousins 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 pains and heartaches I swore that I would die for you and sealed it with a traitor'

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 its wings The people build their fires and bolt their doors The mayor is giving dinner to th

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 change to years Soon the twilight gloom appears And then one day before you know You'll have n

The Strawbs Strawbs All The Little Ladies looking through their windows Peering through lace curtains All the little ladies With grey haired hat-pinned heads Watching people they know who don't understand That they're living their lonely lives second

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 guiding hands The mist before us cleared and we saw the promised land. With our brothers and our

Hero's face was gaunt and tanned AmSus4 Am His sail was set in search of land Csus2 C His life-raft, solely by him manned Dm Was guided by the tide Dm DmSus2 Heroine wore fleecy white AmSus4 Am She beckoned like some savior bright Csus2 C Shipwrecked

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 voice But the music it was making Was nothing of my choice. The interwoven branches Were la