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Artist/Band: Richard Thompson
Lyrics for Song: Wheely Down
Lyrics for Album: Starring Henry The Human Fly [1991]



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 the maps

And they had made her well

For the rivers danced all across the green

And the pine-wood 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 his home

Upon the flooded ground

And the still on the tide is a glass to the eyes

That stare out of Wheely Down



All things must change within the earth

The moving and the lame

For the worms 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

On high over Wheely Down


Album Lyrics: Starring Henry The Human Fly [1991]


Richard Thompson
"Starring Henry The Human Fly [1991]"


1. Shaky Nancy
2. Wheely Down
3. Painted Ladies
4. Mary And Joseph