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Days Gone By

[Jon Boden]

Jon Boden sang his own song Days Gone By on his 2009 solo CD Songs From the Floodplain and as the 14 January 2011 entry of his project A Folk Song a Day.

Lyrics

Jon Boden sings Days Gone By

Lying on the motorway this morning
I thought I heard a distant thunder rolling
So I lay so still on the motorway
Till the cavalcade come screaming past
Like hell hounds in my ears

It was over in a moment
The wind like a tornado
The sweet perfume of petrol like a lover’s parting kiss
Then I closed my eyes on the motorway
And dreamed about the days gone by, brave boys
I dreamed about the days gone by

Lying on the motorway this evening
The gypsies came up close while I was sleeping
So quietly down the motorway
Pulling their possessions in the cover of the night

They too had seen the whirlwind
The shining black procession
Screaming past like Gods ascending through a tarmac sky
So they hid themselves by the motorway
And dreamed about the days gone by, brave boys
They dreamed about the days gone by

And what were they doing these people from the government?
Burning sacrificial gasoline to keep the dogs at bay?
There are shadows in the hedgerows
And strange lights from the slip roads
So we huddle on the motorway, brave boys
We huddle on the motorway