Wheely Down Lyrics - Richard Thompson

She womanly lay like the lay of the land 

The land around Wheely Down 

And every curve was a high, high hill 

To hang above the town 

>From Holland they came to make their maps 

And they had made her well 

For the rivers danced all across the green 

And the pine woods sweet did smell 

As far as ever a man can see 

It yields him more and more 

And every house he washes it white 

And he covers it all with straw 

Except for the fool who makes him home 

Upon a flooded ground 

And still on the tide his glass to the eyes 

That stare out of Wheely Down 

All things must change within the earth 

They move in and they lay 

Ah, the ones will rot the miller's wheel 

And the rats will eat the grain 

And the armies of deliverance 

Are run into the ground 

And the kestrel turns in the empty skies 

And high over Wheely Down 

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