{"id":91,"date":"2016-10-05T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/a-cottage-in-the-country\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:15:00","slug":"a-cottage-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/a-cottage-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cottage in the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nA COTTAGE IN THE COUNTRY<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel – Norwich, August 1974<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nI see you as an old lady<\/span>
\nSat serenely in your chair<\/span>
\nThe knitting is in your hand.<\/span>
\nIn the cradle rocks the bairn.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nThough you are still touched by youth<\/span>
\nAll about you is so slow.<\/span>
\nJust as if an old lady<\/span>
\nAnd a rustic. Quaint!<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nChorus<\/span>
\nAnd oh so slow the river flows<\/span><\/i>
\nSo (oh) slow – Oh………..<\/span><\/i>
\n
<\/span>
\nYour husband too, like a country gent<\/span>
\nWith his waist coat, pipe and stick.<\/span>
\nHis head bowed down in a book<\/span>
\nAs a lazy clock does tick.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nHe with his old mandolin<\/span>
\nand Stradivarius violin<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nHarmonising with the breeze<\/span>
\nLike a slow motion sneeze.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nChorus<\/span>
\nAnd oh so slow the river flows<\/span><\/i>
\nSo (oh) slow oh….<\/span><\/i>
\n
<\/span>
\n“Scrub a dub dub<\/i>” in an old wooden tub<\/span>
\nChop up the tree for fire wood.<\/span>
\nChop up the tree for me,<\/span>
\nChop up the tree for warmth and love.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nYour hand tills the land<\/span>
\nFor food and for sale.<\/span>
\nThere’s a goat in your garden<\/span>
\nThat gives milk in a pail.<\/span>
\nAn old wishing well and a chemical loo.<\/span>
\nA little way out cottage, just suits you.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nBrown rice and veg and unleavened bread<\/span>
\nYou believe ‘you are what you are fed’.<\/span>
\nAlways on the sill, lie apple pies<\/span>
\nAway with the ring, the Jackdaw flies.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nA few miles away in a smoky old town<\/span>
\nHard to recall how time merry-goes-round<\/span>
\nOutside in the lane, wrapped up in your shawl<\/span>
\nFruit and veg on sale on your stall.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nChorus<\/span>
\nAnd oh so slow that river flows<\/span><\/i>
\nSo oh slow oh<\/span><\/i>
\n
<\/span>
\nIt’s strange when you think, that not long away<\/span>
\nThe bairn at your bosom will be making his way<\/span>
\nSoon to be at the stage we are now<\/span>
\nand we – the older generation.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nChorus<\/span>
\nAnd oh so slow that river flows<\/span><\/i>
\nSo oh slow oh<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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