An old English dream (2003) (video)

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1. They say this fair city has ten thousand souls,

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some live in mansions and some live in holes.

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Some eat from silver and some eat from gold,

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some sift through garbage and sleep in the cold,

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sleep out in the cold.

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I saw a great highway that stretched to the sta......rs

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I saw a deep river all choked up with ca........rs.

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And a babe in a cradle, and a cat with the crea.....m,

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and an old English churchyard and an old English dream,

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2. Once we had a country and thought it so fair,

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if you look through the mirror you can still find it there.

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But now our great country is broken and torn.

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and all of its promise and liberties worn,

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all of its liberties worn.

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3. I saw a great plain in winter all covered in snow,

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ten thousand soldiers marched to and fro.

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I saw a broken down building with ten thousand doors,

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none of them open, none of them yours,

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not a one of them yours.

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Saw a great highway that stretched to the sta......rs,

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I saw a deep river all choked up with ca........rs.

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And a babe in a cradle, and a cat with the crea.....m,

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and an old English churchyard and an old English dream,

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+ And an old English dream.

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And an old English dream.

(Procol Harum)