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T:England 1914
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C:Ralph McTell
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W:What is it about you, makes me feel this way? 
W:When I'm leaving you, when I'm coming home 
W:I'm lost for words to say. 
W:And I know your faults and failures, 
W:And the troubles that you've been through. 
W:But it's more about what happens now 
W:And what were coming to.
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W:And the echo from the green hills
W:Runs through the city streets,
W:And the sun when it shines on England
W:Well it lifts the heart in me.
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W:What is it about you that took men into war? 
W:Rows and rows of crosses, who remembers why what for? 
W:The corners of these foreign fields, 
W:The dust in them concealed. 
W:Out of sight but not out of mind, 
W:Don't you know that England feels? 
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W:England, oh England 
W:England, oh England 
W:England, oh England
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W:Don't make this out a battle hymn or a song for victory. 
W:It's just a way to try to say what England means to me. 
W:And our accents and our colours change 
W:From the city to the farmland 
W:From the moorland to the mountain, 
W:From the river to the sea. 
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W:England, oh England 
W:England, oh England 
W:England, oh England
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W:From the rolling road to the winding lane, 
W:From the field to factory, 
W:From summer's haze to winter's glaze, 
W:And all the colours in between. 
W:It's a stillness in the evening. 
W:It's the heartbeat that I'm feeling. 
W:From Cornwall to Northumberland, 
W:From the Pennines to the sea.

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