Lyrics

Thoughts Of Love And Home

I recall those happy days when we first courted, Dear
And the words we spoke beneath a summer moon
When the autumn took you north you wrote letters from afar
The precious words swore you’d be returning soon

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Oh, in the spring [in the spring]
When the little birds sing [sing sweet songs]
And a warm rain is falling on the ground
Then we put those words away for a colder winter day
And our hearts turned to thoughts of love and home

We were married in the spring with a farm and a ring
Words of hope were written all across your face
Two years drought came and went and left the fields brown and spent
And you cursed the day you’d brought us to this place

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The next few winters found you gone, chasing dreams of wealth gone wrong
With me to tend these churlish fields all on my own
With a weary back and mind, working hard, you never find
More prosperity than we had known at home

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This last winter was the worst, the old men sent the young to war
The brave and reckless ones who had so much to give
When the dreadful seeds were sown, the hardest work a man has known
Turning earth to bury those that did not live