An almost total rewrite of a song I wrote in 2011.
Based on a tragedy in a Welsh mining village near where I was born.
"Honey town" comes from the colour of a town in the sunlight as it appears viewing from a mountain top.
Comments welcome.
Vic

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Shadows © 2018 Vic Arnold

On this mountain, beautiful mountain
shadows fall on honey town
where we drink from crystal fountains
coming up from the coal dark ground

On this river, beautiful river,
where the children skim the stones
on sparkling water that flashes silver
'til their mothers call them home.

Yes we lived here through the ages
and we loved here for a while
but now we're shadows, just shadows.
Merely shadows ... of time

In this valley, beautiful valley,
there's a dark cloud on the hill.
People crying for the many
coal black bodies lying still.

Oh they lived here through the ages
and they loved here for a while
but now they're shadows, coal black shadows.
Merely shadows ... in time

It's never too late? Yes it is, so do it now.

If, given time, a monkey can write the complete works of Shakespeare maybe there's hope for me.

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