In a country churchyard (Listen to midi)    (sample)

 

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1. In a country churchyard there`s a preacher with his people,

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    gathered all around to join a man and woman.

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    Spring is here and turtledoves are singing from the steeple,

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    bees are in the flowers, growing in the graveyard,

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    and over the hill, where the river meets the mill,

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  a lovely girl is coming down to give her hand upon her wedding day.

 

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2. Dressed in simple white and wearing flowers in her hair,

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    music as she walks slowly to the altar.

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   And picking up his Bible then the preacher turns towards her,

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    “Will you take this man to be your wedded husband,

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  to honour and to love in the eyes of God above,   now let the people

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   sing with me  these words to live forever in your hearts.“

 

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    Let your lo.....ve   shine on , for we are the stars in the sky,

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    let your   lo…...ve shine strong until the day you fly away.

 

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3. Many years have fallen on that golden country morning,

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    the graveyard`s overgrown, the church it lies in ruins.

 

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    Ivy on the walls and ravens wheeling round above me,

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    as-I-made my way towards the last remaining headstone.

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    I fell to my knees, read the lines beneath the leaves,  and suddenly

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    it seemed to me I heard the words like singing in the trees.

 

 

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    Let your   lo…..ve  shine on , for we are the stars in the sky,

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    let your    lo…..ve shine strong until the day you fly

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    +  CHORUS -    +.......away            

 

    (Chris de Burgh)