There Is Still A Green Hill / Songs and Lyrics

Version 1

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T:There Is Still A Green Hill
C:G Stebbins (tune)
C:JSMF (words)
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w:There is a green hill far a - way, Which
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w:we will ne-ver tread, Where -
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w:scan-ty rice or mil-let makes The
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w:peo-ple’s dai-ly bread.
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W:There is a green hill far away,
W:Which we will never tread,
W:Where scanty rice or millet makes
W:The people’s daily bread.
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W:2
W:Through labour long the parents try
W:Their families to feed,
W:Yet rarely does the rice they win
W:Suffice to meet their need.
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W:3
W:Here comes the trader from the town,
W:With promise fair and true;
W:“I’ll train your child in useful skills,
W:And send his wage to you.
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W:He’ll live with me in comfort sure,
W:And he shall eat his fill.
W:Here’s thirty pence in token of
W:My good and honest will.”
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W:5
W:In cellar damp with rod and thongs
W:He’s broken to his trade,
W:And shirts and shoes and radio sets
W:By his young hand are made.
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W:6
W:In our own high street near at hand,
W:The goods they have to sell
W:Come from the sweatshop where he works
W:Enduring living hell.
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W:7
W:We don’t admit, we never tell
W:What pains he has to bear,
W:But we must know it is for us
W:He lives and suffers there.

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