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The Scarecrow

from The Trains & The Rain by Roy Smiles

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The Scarecrow

Cruel is the winter
Empty the hearth
Barren the fields
Dark is the path
Long is the evening
Cruel is the bed
Bleak is the land
Where a woman has fled.

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You can ask the farmer
But the scarecrow he knows
It’s an unkindness of ravens
But a murder of crows
You can ask the farmer
But the scarecrow he knows
Broken’s the harvest
When love fails to grow.

Mean is the stable
Savage the wind
Sour the earth
Where she once sinned
Brooding the forest
Bare are the trees
Vicious the woman
Deaf to your pleas.

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(Instrumental)

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Grim is the future
Dour the snow
Desert the soil
Mocking the crow
Broken the farmer
Betrayed by a wife
Bloody the heart
That’s cut like a knife.

Chorus

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from The Trains & The Rain, released May 30, 2015

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Roy Smiles London, UK

Roy Smiles has recorded ten albums:
'Drunks & Dreamers' (2011), 'Time's Moving On' (2012),'Seize The Day' (2013), 'Autumn Song' (2014), 'Bremen' (2014), 'The Trains & The Rain' (2015), 'Northern Angels'.(2018), 'Lost Souls' (2020), 'November's Child' (2023) & 'Tales Of The Ocean' (2023).
All available on Bandcamp.
Contact: roy.smiles@aol.co.uk.
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