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The island lies like a leaf upon the sea

Green island like a leaf new fallen from

The tree

Green turns to gold as morning breezes

Gently shake the barley

Bending the yellow corn

Green turns to gold, there’s purple

Shadows on the distant mountains

And the sun in the yellow corn

They came in their longships from lands

Beyond the sea

They came in their longships, they saw the land was green

Wind in the barley, trout and salmon

Leaping in the rivers

Sun in the yellow corn

Leaping ashore they slaughtered those

Who laboured in the barley

Scything them down like corn

The longships sailed away and new

Invaders came

With long bow and lance bringing death

In England’s name

With sword and with mace they went

Reaping through the fields of barley

They plundered the yellow corn

Crop followed crop and prospered in the

Killing fields of barley

In the harvest of new young corn

Marching down the years the men of war

They came

With bombs, assassin’s bullets, c. s gas

And guns

Ghosts from the past are chasing shadows

Through the fields of barley

Hiding in the yellow corn

900 years they’ve tried to trap the wind

That shakes the barley

And the sun in the

Yellow corn

The island lies like a leaf upon the sea

Green island like a leaf new fallen from

The tree

Green turns to gold as morning breezes

Gently shake the barley

Bending the yellow corn

No force on earth can ever trap the wind

That shakes the barley

Or the sun in the yellow corn

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