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Billy Wright 1893 - 2014

from Ocean Blue by Alan Walker

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Billy Wright Was a country lad
Born in 1893
In the sight of St Saviours Spire
On a cold grey January

His father was a working man
Back bent in the fields
This was the way in England's shires
For the past thousand years

Billy boy grew straight and strong
From years at the plough
He loved to walk the woods and lanes
Taken by the tarmac now

Billy loved a pretty girl
Her hair was fine spun gold
They dreamed of the life they'd live
And together they'd grow old

From far away came the battle call
Sign up boys, we need you all
From the longbow's sting to the cannon's roar
Young men have left for a foreign war

Billy Wright was a country lad
With dreams of marching home
In that hell of blood and bone
He was destroyed and died alone

From far away came the postmans call
His death kissed face said it all
A life unlived is like an empty hall
Where widows walk and empires fall

When you walk through an English wood
Soft green beauty all around
Spare a thought for Billy Wright
A hundred years in the cold dark ground

Billy Wright was a country lad
Born in 1893
He has no grave just a marker stone
And immortality

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from Ocean Blue, released November 6, 2018

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