歌词
Now it's been 25 years or more
I've roamed this land from shore to shore
From Tyne to Tamar, Severn to Thames
From moor to vale, from peak to fen
Played in cafes, pubs and bars
I've stood in the street with my old guitar
But I'd be richer than all the rest
If I had a pound for each request
For 'Duelling Banjos', 'American Pie'
It's enough to make you cry
'Rule Britannia', or 'Swing low...'
Are they the only songs we English know?
Seed, bark, flower, fruit
They're never gonna grow without their roots
Branch, stem, shoot
They need roots
After the speeches, when the cake's been cut
The disco's over and the bar is shut
At christening, birthday, wedding or wake
What can we sing 'til the morning breaks
When the Indians, Asians, Afro-Celts
It's in their blood, below their belt
They're playing and dancing all night long
So what have they got right that we've got wrong?
Seed, bark, flower, fruit
They're never gonna grow without their roots
Branch, stem, shoot
They need roots and
Haul away boys, let them go
Out in the wind and the rain and snow
We've lost more than we'll ever know
'Round the rocky shores of England
We need roots
And a minister said his vision of hell
Is three folk singers in a pub near Wells
Well, I've got a vision of urban sprawl
There's pubs where no-one ever sings at all
And everyone stares at a great big screen
Overpaid soccer stars, prancing teens
Australian soap, American rap
Estuary English, baseball caps
And we learn to be ashamed before we walk
Of the way we look, and the way we talk
Without our stories or our songs
How will we know where we come from?
I've lost St. George in the Union Jack
It's my flag too and I want it back
Seed, bark, flower, fruit
Never gonna grow without their roots
Branch, stem, shoot
We need roots
Haul away boys, let them go
Out in the wind and the rain and snow
We've lost more than we'll ever know
'Round the rocky shores of England
We need roots...
专辑信息
1.Nobody Knew She Was There
2.The Origin of the World
3.Bedlam Boys
4.High on a Hill ( by Kate Rusby)
5.The Call and the Answer
6.Horizontigo
7.Edges / Thin Waltz
8.Spitfires
9.Anna Mae
10.Wildwood Flower
11.England Half English Meets John Barleycorn (feat. Billy Bragg)
12.Roll Her Down the Bay
13.Dance, Idiot, Dance
14.Point the Finger at the Emperor
15.Pink Triangle
16.The Littlest Birds
17.Work Harder
18.Standing in Line
19.Martinmas Time
20.Like I Care
21.Four Loom Weaver
22.Subuhanalaii
23.Beating the Bounds
24.Softly Good Tummas;Shropshire Lass
25.Roots
26.Colony
27.Under One Sky
28.New Voice
29.Holding On
30.Safe House
31.Two Brethren