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(Instrumental intro)When did the anguish first beginWhen did the viper venture in And snare our loving childWho always wore a smile While growing free and wild From when she newly flowered As if from some dark cloudLight faded from that day In a dark and dismal shroud She quietly drifted away Blinded by the liesSpat…

I saw her standing thereWhen they opened the doorA vision so lovelyAcross the ballroom floorI remember the band playing a beautiful songIt gave me the courageTo stumble right onAcross the dance floorI bumbled on.She took my handWe danced to that tuneWaltzed togetherAll round the roomI asked if she would come with meAnd we drove through…

Waiting through the overtureI was waiting for act one to beginWaiting for the curtain risingAnd the Players to come and enter inAnd there on the stage As the house lights dimmed Sittig there all forlornWas the lovely heroinePining the while With a sad soliloquyTelling of forbidden loveThat never was to beHeld there as the wardA…

In a land oppressed by the TyrantAnd when his Nobles took over their lands(instrumental Interlude) There arose the son of a Lowland KnightTo avenge what they had done to his brideHe sacked LanarkFor a rebellion was to startHere the die was castThe Clans all rallied around himTo deploy in the NorthAnd they faced old Longshank’s…

(Brief instrumental intro)It’s no use wondering how it all begunA poor man’s life spent on the runTho’ said he borrowed a Squatter’s fancy horseThe Magistrate declared it was theft perforceWith hard labour they sent him downA road gang set up out of townSo when it was, they set him freeHe lived on the fringe of…

Coming from a troubled realmWhere rights of man and hope were goneWere they wrong to search for a promised landWhen they sailed across the endless seasFor a better life for their families.Where on a distant shoreIn a strange new placeThey cleared the ground and they settled downAnd for their salvation they ‘Praised the Lord’Through pain,…

Born to one George FullerA bastard of a childPerhaps that was the portentFor a life spent running wildArrested at an early ageFor larceny and livestock theftThe Judge then duly sent him downTo the prison hulk ‘Success’.Released as a ‘Ticket Man’He finally came backAnd very soon was known asYoung ‘Down the River Jack’While adopting this personaHe…

(Instrumental intro)Here lies the sad taleOf a Farmer’s two lonely sonsAnd of a lovely city ladyWho brought them undoneWhen she came betrothed to oneA new bride, who was meant to beThey hoped she’d beA part of the familyA part of a familyAnd so it was, in the beginningThey began to see The ‘green eyed’ monster…

Can you feel itThe cold winds blowing at our doorI fear they could be the bitter winds of warThe town bells are ringingA death knell ringingAll the while just waiting for the callListening to the writing on the wallThey’re calling out to our brave young menWho are ready now to rally to that callTo the…

(Instrumental intro)And it came to pass, that a Carpenter’s sonWhen His destined journey at first begunHe chanced across down by the sea A long time ago in GalileeAndrew, Peter, James and John.The Brothers who were called uponWhile casting fish nets on the tideTo cast them on the other sideAnd so it was, that they first…