Pennine Spring-Steve Tilston

[ti:Pennine Spring] [ar:Steve Tilston] [al:The Reckoning] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.43]All of you who walk the chain [00:05.94] [00:08.14]Must learn to love the wind and rain [00:13.23] [00:17.65]Dare to call these mountains friends [00:22.36] [00:23.70]Know the way the backbone bends [00:27.67] [00:29.71]How the Welkin grips the soul [00:35.12] [00:35.84]Stirs some blessed rigmarole [00:40.37] [00:41.99]Where the peaks and waterfalls [00:46.83] [00:48.10]Dwarf all man-made mansion halls [00:54.26]Veterans and pilgrims mark the chosen way [00:59.45] [01:00.30]Lengthening but loyal shadows follow [01:06.76] [01:07.50]Soon summer will embrace the day [01:12.00] [01:12.61]Soon across the more than skims the swallow [01:18.23] [01:33.12]And the murmur of the pots and gills [01:38.19] [01:39.43]That honeycomb the limestone hills [01:45.70]Over Malham's cove and tarn [01:49.46] [01:51.72]Ancient herdsman's pens and barns [01:56.22] [01:57.63]A weathered tongue scolds and scores [02:01.85] [02:03.49]Comes keening up the valley floor [02:07.75] [02:09.88]Past the Withen's ruined bones [02:14.41] [02:15.90]And wuthering erodes the stones [02:20.92] [02:22.13]Is that woodsmoke from a tavern chimney rise [02:27.42] [02:28.11]A welcome light a flickering from a window [02:34.48] [02:35.21]Turn westward face the salmon skies [02:40.43]It could be a sunny day tomorrow [02:45.88] [03:01.00]Ah these pathways mark a trail [03:04.90] [03:07.11]Way beyond the Dove and Swale [03:11.40] [03:13.03]Ghostly legions weave and spin [03:16.31] [03:18.87]Brigantes and Jackobin [03:23.08] [03:24.97]Is that music wafting from an open door [03:30.33] [03:30.88]The chink of many flowing bowls and laughter [03:37.67]Scrape the mud and weave across the floor [03:42.50] [03:43.04]Banish aches and pains to stumble after [03:48.44] [04:04.15]All of you who walk the chain [04:10.25] [04:12.24]Must learn to love the wind and rain [04:20.44] [04:28.86]Must learn to love the wind and rain [04:37.04]Pennine Spring - Steve Tilston