Requiem

For a vanished England. Uh-oh been listening to too much folk music     3/4 time

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The ploughboy and the milkmaid/Were walking one day
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When smoke from the factory/Did blacken their way
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And the dust from the motorcars/Has darkened the lane

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We shall not see the old times/In the village again

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Oh the cornflower and the poppy/And the violet so gay

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And the hawthorn and the mallow/Are going away

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Let us sing a sad requiem/For the Queen of the May

We have ruined the forest

With this greed of ours

The primrose, the anemone

The sweet woodland flowers

The hazel, the holly

The oak and the ash

Went into the sawmill

For the sake of some cash

Chorus

Yes, we’ve killed off the old ways

With our savage greed

The green man is dying

And all of his seed

The sky we have poisoned

The rivers run red

Even the skylark

In the meadow is dead