Roots - Single Mix-Show Of Hands

[ti:Roots - Single Mix] [ar:Show Of Hands] [al:Roots - Single Mix] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Roots - Single Mix (Remix) - Show Of Hands [00:14.40]Now it's been 25 years or more [00:17.12]I've roamed this land from shore to shore [00:20.00]From Tyne to Teign or Severn to Thames [00:22.92]From moor to vale from peak to fen [00:25.88]Played in cafes pubs and bars [00:28.71]I've stood in the street with my own guitar [00:31.65]But I'd be richer than all the rest [00:34.54]If I had a pound for each request [00:37.47]For 'Duelling Banjos' 'American Pie' [00:40.78]It's enough to make you cry [00:43.28]'Rule Britannia' or 'Swing low ' [00:46.18]Are they the only songs we English know [00:49.04]Seed bark flower fruit [00:51.87]They're never gonna grow without their roots [00:54.87]Branch stem shoot [00:59.53]They need roots [01:02.20] [01:06.49]After the speeches when the cake's been cut [01:09.24]The disco's over and the bar is shut [01:12.12]At christening birthday wedding or wake [01:14.94]What can we sing 'til the morning breaks [01:17.83]When the Indians Asians Afro-Celts [01:20.92]It's in their blood below their belt [01:23.53]They're playing and dancing all night long [01:26.25]So what have they got right that we've got wrong [01:29.51]Seed bark flower fruit [01:32.45]They're never gonna grow without their roots [01:35.32]Branch stem shoot [01:40.05]They need roots and [01:41.14]Haul away boys let them go [01:44.09]Out in the wind and the rain and snow [01:46.89]We've lost more than we'll ever know [01:49.76]'Round the rocky shores of England [01:51.85] [02:02.23]We need roots [02:03.10] [02:09.88]And a minister said his vision of hell [02:12.19] [02:13.30]Is three folk singers in a pub near Wales [02:15.73]Well I've got a vision of urban sprawl [02:18.63]There's pubs where no-one ever sings at all [02:21.47]And everyone stares at a great big screen [02:24.42]Overpaid soccer stars prancing teens [02:27.30]Australian soap American rap [02:30.24]Estuary English baseball caps [02:32.96]And we learn to be ashamed before we walk [02:35.86]Of the way we look and the way we talk [02:38.76]Without our stories or our songs [02:41.86]How will we know where we come from [02:44.72]I've lost St George and the Union Jack [02:47.62]That's my flag too and I want it back [02:50.47]Seed bark flower fruit [02:53.40]Never gonna grow without their roots [02:56.42]Branch stem shoot [03:00.53] [03:01.12]We need roots [03:02.05]Haul away boys let them go [03:04.90]Out in the wind and the rain and snow [03:07.81]We've lost more than we'll ever know [03:10.67]'Round the rocky shores of England [03:13.65]Haul away boys let them go [03:16.39]Out in the wind and the rain and snow [03:19.37]We've lost more than we'll ever know [03:22.23]'Round the rocky shores of England [03:25.41]Haul away boys let them go [03:27.99]Out in the wind and the rain and snow [03:30.92]We've lost more than we'll ever know [03:33.66]'Round the rocky shores of England [03:35.99] [03:37.06]Haul away boys let them go [03:39.63]Out in the wind and the rain and snow [03:42.48]We've lost more than we'll ever know [03:45.35]'Round the rocky shores of England [03:48.33]Haul away boys let them go [03:51.13]Out in the wind and the rain and snow [03:54.03]We've lost more than we'll ever know [03:57.07]'Round the rocky shores of England [04:00.00]Haul away boys let them go [04:02.85]Out in the wind and the rain and snow