Virginia Lake from Understudy by The Great Park

virginia lake

we were out on the lake we were sunburnt and dazed
it was not like we planned it
we were as thick as thieves we took more than we needed
and we were caught red handed

suddenly the heavens did roar and the rain it did fall
and we were washed well away
above then below and down we did go
into the great virginia lake

to the south we had fled where it’s safe they said
where it’s too hot for fighting
and with a dozen promises of the welcome we’d get
from the friends we would find there

and the horses we rode did us proud with the load
they never once complained
blacks and bays dapples and greys
into the great virginia lake

i tell you what went wrong it all went to the dogs
for no good reason
oh the greed of a man can get out of hand
there can be no pleasing

yes we took and we took a cretin and a crook
and we were never the same
we were stuffed and ashamed and we dumped all the waste
into the great virginia lake

• Acoustic
• acoustic folk
• folk
• problem folk
• singer-songwriter
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• Germany