Lyrics Richard Thompson – Wheely Down
Text:
She womanly lay like the lay of the land
The land around Wheely Down
And every curve was a high, high hill
To hang above the town
From Holland they came to make their maps
And they had made her well
For the rivers danced all across the green
And the pine woods sweet did smell
And they had made her well
For the rivers danced all across the green
And the pine woods sweet did smell
As far as ever a man can see
It yields him more and more
And every house he washes it white
And he covers it all with straw
Except for the fool who makes him home
Upon a flooded ground
And still on the tide his glass to the eyes
That stare out of Wheely Down
All things must change within the earth
They move in and they lay
Ah, the ones will rot the miller’s wheel
And the rats will eat the grain
And the armies of deliverance
Are run into the ground
And the kestrel turns in the empty skies
And high over Wheely Down
Album
Richard Thompson – Henry The Human Fly
Richard Thompson – Twisted
Richard Thompson – The Old Changing Way
Richard Thompson – Mary And Joseph
Richard Thompson – Cold Feet
Richard Thompson – Painted Ladies
Richard Thompson – The New St. George
Richard Thompson – Wheely Down
Richard Thompson – The Angels Took My Racehorse Away
Richard Thompson – Shaky Nancy
Richard Thompson – The Poor Ditching Boy
Richard Thompson – Nobody’s Wedding
Richard Thompson – Roll Over Vaughan Williams