Glorious Devon-Peter Dawson

[ti:Glorious Devon] [ar:Peter Dawson] [al:A Retrospective Peter Dawson] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Glorious Devon - Peter Dawson [00:06.86]Coombe and Tor green meadow and lane [00:09.40]Birds on the waving bough [00:11.78] [00:12.44]Beetling cliffs by the surging main [00:15.09]Rich red loam for the plough [00:18.30]Devon's the fount of the bravest blood [00:20.86]That braces England's breed [00:23.87]Her maidens fair as the apple bud [00:29.80]And her men are men indeed [00:34.36] [00:35.63]When Adam and Eve were dispossess'd [00:40.66]Of the Garden hard by Heaven [00:43.13] [00:43.78]They planted another one town in the West [00:47.76]Was Devon was Devon glorious Devon [00:54.55] [01:00.45]Spirits to old world heroes wake [01:03.11]By river and cove and hoe [01:06.58]Grenville Hawkins Raleigh and Drake [01:09.14]And a thousand more we know [01:12.79]To every land the wide world o'er [01:15.39]Some slips of the old stock roam [01:18.50]Loyal friends in the peace dread foes in war [01:25.60]With hearts still true to home [01:30.52] [01:31.05]Old England's counties by the sea [01:36.29]From east to west are seven [01:39.27]But the gem of that fair galaxy [01:41.94]Is is Devon is Devon glorious Devon [01:50.64] [01:56.39]Dorset Somerset Cornwall Wales [01:59.34]May envy the likes of we [02:02.44]For the flower of the West the first the best [02:05.26]The pick of the bunch us be [02:08.59]Squab pie junket and cider brew [02:11.98]Richest cream of the cow [02:14.92]What ud Old England without them do [02:18.36]And where udun be to now [02:23.11]As crumpy as a lump of lead [02:28.67]Be a loaf without good leaven [02:30.97] [02:31.66]And the yeast Mother England do use for her bread [02:35.75]Be Devon be Devon glorious Devon