Barclay James Harvest The Ballad Of Denshaw Mill Lyrics

Ballad Of Denshaw Mill Lyrics

On a cold starry night in the winter time

 Stood three old men by a mill pond in the moonlight

 And they spoke of their young men in the front line

 How they all wished them home for the christmas time

 As they spoke from the east came a bright light

 And it sparkled like pure gold in their sad eyes

 And an angel came down on denshaw mill

 Spreading her light all around on the darkside

 Are you blind can you not see

 Do you think that it's me who deceives?

 He promised to be there if you believe, to carry you home

 

 A hole as rotten as ever fouled the green earth

 Was this old mill in its day, spoke the angel

 Yet there's many a poor boy in foreign climes

 Who would think this old mill now a palace fine

 

 As she spoke from the mill there came laughter

 Came the warm sounds of their young men like a summer breeze

 And they rose in the night like fire bright

 Spreading their light all around on the darkside

 

 Are you blind can you not see

 Do you think that it's me who deceives?

 He promised to be there if you believe, to carry you home

 

 No-one knows what became of the bonny lads

 Posted missing, lost in action in a far land

 Fools and heroes, gallant men, now side by side

 With the old men who believed they came home that night

 To the warmth of their homes at christmas time

 To the peace of their homes at christmas time