Intro
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Here’s the house and here’s the land
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Here’s where our old cottage stands
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My parents gave all they could give
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And this is where my family live
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My Mum was raised under cob & thatch
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An honest living they did scratch
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But when their cottage was condemned
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Their country way of life did end
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So the council moved them to the town
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Expected just to settle down
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But long her country heart did yearn
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And to the country she’d return
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They found this house like a Devon dream
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With golden thatch and walls of cream
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Put in an offer without delay
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So us kids could grow up in a country way
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And here we children roam the fields
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Making dens in woods concealed
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Cycle the lanes around about
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We know this country inside out
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We gather apples in the fall
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Stack the sacks against the wall
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Help the farmers herd the sheep
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And dream of summer in our sleep
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Next to us is Joyce & Bill
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Arthur & Unis up the hill
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Old Mrs King in the farm so bleak
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Walks to chapel every week
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We know each neighbour name for name
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There’s no strangers in this lane
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Always friendly, always true
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Devon people through and through
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The one-tree bridge is fallen and gone
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Where the sticklebacks hid under a stone
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Here we blackberried, here we swam
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Made out of pebbles and mud a damn
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Here the tall heron fished the stream
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Here we watched the kingfisher gleam
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Down the long valley the woodpigeons cry
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Where the Whimple to Waterloo train steamed by
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Here’s the house and here’s the land
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Here’s where our old cottage stands
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My parents gave all they could give
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And this is where my family live
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There’s some who said we couldn’t pay
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Some who said we’d never stay
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Some looked on with spite and scorn
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At the house where I was bred and born
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