Over The Hills And Far Away Lyrics

Over The Hills And Far Away lyrics

They came for him one winter's night.
Arrested, he was bound.
They said
there'd been a robbery,
his pistol had been found.

They marched him
to the station house,
he waited for the dawn.
And as they led him to the
dock,
he knew that he'd been wronged.
"You stand accused of
robbery,"
he heard the bailiff say.
He knew without an
alibi,
tomorrow's light would mourn his freedom.

Over the hills and
far away,
for ten long years he'll count the days.
Over the mountains and
the seas,
a prisoner's life for him there'll be.

He knew that it would
cost him dear,
but yet he dare not say.
Where he had been that fateful
night,
a secret it must stay.
He had to fight back tears of rage.
His
heart beat like a drum.
For with the wife of his best friend,
he spent
his final night of freedom.

Over the hills and far away,
he swears he
will return one day.
Far from the mountains and the seas,
back in her arms
again he'll be.
Over the hills and far away.

Over the hills
and,
over the hills and,
over the hills and far away.

Each night
within his prison cell,
he looks out through the bars.
He reads the
letters that she wrote.
One day he'll know the taste of freedom.

Over
the hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the
rivers reach the seas,
back in his arms again she'll be.

Over the
hills and far away,
he swears he will return one day.
Far from the
mountains and the seas,
back in her arms again he'll be.

Over the
hills and far away,
she prays he will return one day.
As sure as the
rivers reach the sea,
back in her arms is where he'll be.

Over the
hills,
over the hills and far away.

Over the hills,
over the hills
and far away.