It was on christmas day
And all in the morning
That our saviour was born, our heavenly king
And was not this a joyful a thing
And sweet Jesus they call him by name

It was on the twelfth day
And all in the morning
That the wise men were led to our heavenly king
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All things are quite silent, each mortal at rest
When me and my true love lay snug in one nest
When a band of bold ruffians broke into our cave
And they forced my dear jewel to plough the salt way

I begged hard for my darling as I would for my life
But they would not heed m

Tell yourself you’re not alone, jane
He’s calling you
So far away he's crying out your name
Rochester, where are you?

Clear the mist from out of your head
Try to think right back to when you said
“Sir, I will not be yours”

Will you go running back again?
I thi

There was a lady in Scotland
Oh my love and oh my life
Who’s fallen in love with an English man
Sing oh my life is early
The father to this daughter’s come
Saying “Will you forsake your English man?
Or Bonnie Susie Cleland
You’ll be buried in Dundee”

“If you’ll

Silence swims as a fish in the water
Lighting the Lumb with her colours so bright
But each Christmas Eve see what magic transforms her
Bradwell’s lost daughter takes wing in the night

Found alone at a house up at Hill Head
Poor long dead wretch buried under the stair
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Leith waters run, leith waters flow
And time's washed down as melted snow
There sleeps the unnamed girl laid low
Weed tangled hair pulled to and fro
Her life dragged to the undertow
Down by the bridge of dean

All hallow's eve left ghosts there
In bonfire night's chi

At once I'm blinding in the sun
Then in your shadow I am gone
The shattered shards of life long lost
A sharp revenge in years to come

In this blood blessing we are tied
But turn and see another side
A thousand lives are lived in one
Reflections keep what's dead and

From the famous peak of derby
And the devil’s arse that’s hard by
Where we yearly make our musters
There the gypsies throng in clusters
Be not frightened by our fashion
Though we seem a tattered nation
We account our rags our riches
So our tricks exceed our stitches

With my dog and gun through the blooming heather
To seek for past-time I chanced to stray
There a maid I spied, she was tall and slender
Her looks enticed me a while to stay

Says I “my fair maid I own I love you
Tell me your name and your dwelling also”
“Excuse my name

Down in yon forest there stands a hall
The bells of paradise I heard them ring
It’s covered all over with purple and pall
And I love my lord Jesus above anything

A knight there lies upon a bed
The bells of paradise I heard them ring
All scarlet’s the coverlet over him s

Roland, please forgive me dear,
It breaks my heart full sore
I long to keep your company
But we shall meet no more, no more
We shall meet no more

The days are dark as night my love
And death looks for my door
The whispers tell that gabriel hounds
Have been heard

Down monsel dale, by the winding stream
Fin cop meets the heavens high
And in the lea of this orphan hill
A lonely man abides

Oh hulac warren to this cave outcast,
For giant bone and stretch skin
He plays a tune sad as earth and stone
The fiddler fin

But by th

"Wake, oh wake my dearest jeanie
And accept these flowers of may
The sun breaks with my love for you
And I beg you come away"

"Oh my father will not have you
And my mother she says no
They say you must earn wealth and rank
Before they let me go"

"Then my ship

A sea of tiny sparkling lights
Wait patiently to welcome you tonight
The sleeping city lingers near
While dreamers night walkers and ghosts drift here

The clocks dance back and forward as time shifts so recklessly
Just dusty grey and neon bright to count for company

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Golden light shines silver on the water
You sit and sip your shandies by the harbour
In the twilight night birds cry
And time sails slowly by
As bobbing boats like floating candles gleam

What a merry crew you are
You, the brothers and the lovers
You, who touched the

Speeding down the motorway in the north of england
I catch a glimpse of a lover’s mark
A forest of trees in the shape of a heart
I heard an raf went down, in his plane aflame
On the hillside not far from his fiancé
In her grief she planted seedlings on that naked hill
You

Over moors and valleys deep, through the Dark Peak and the White
There two tragic lovers sleep in gritstone, blood, and lime.
Clara, such a tender girl, virtuous and fair to see
Daughter of a wealthy Lord, but cruel as death was he.
Suitors rich and mighty came, all for Clara’s f

Think hard on what you're saying
We're victims all of our circumstances
Third, forth and fifth chances

Just one or two bad choices
And lady luck forgets that you exist
How long would you be missed?

Down a dark lane off broadway
She warms her fingers by the fires g

From shore to shore 'cross all terrain
Five hundred times round this house and back again
Through hours and days and joy and shame
In hearts pure love and times cruel pain

We walked that single winding road
Two joined as one to share the load
To keep the dead men off ou

Seven pink roses
All that I saved
Faded pink roses, crumbling, pressed in the page

Last of the roses
My sweat and my blood
My beautiful garden strangled weeds in the flood

When a heart can be drowned
When strong stones so easily broken
Never more will bird son