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I walked in my greatcoat |
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Down through the days of the leaves. |
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No before after, yes after before |
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We were shining our light into the days of blooming wonder |
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In the eternal presence, in the presence of the flame. |
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Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder |
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Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision bright |
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Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame. |
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On and on and on and on we kept singing our song |
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Over Newtonards and Comber, Gransha and the |
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Ballystockart Road. |
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With Boffyflow and Spike |
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I said I could describe the leaves for Samuel and Felicity |
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Rich, red browney, half burnt orange and green. |
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Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder |
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Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision bright |
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Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame. |
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It's easy to describe the leaves in the Autumn |
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And it's oh so easy in the Spring |
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But down through January and February it's a very different thing. |
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On and on and on, through the winter of our discontent. |
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When the wind blows up the collar and the ears are frostbitten too |
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I said I could describe the leaves for Samuel and what it means to you and me |
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You may call my love Sophia, but I call my love Philosophy. |
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Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder |
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Didn't I come to lift your fiery vision |
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Didn't I come to bring you a sense of wonder in the flame. |
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Wee Alfie at the |
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Castle Picture House on the Castlereagh Road. |
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Whistling on the corner next door where |
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he kept Johnny Mack Brown's horse. |
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O Solo Mio by McGimsey |
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and the man who played the saw |
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outside the city hall. |
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Pastie suppers down at Davey's chipper |
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Gravy rings, barmbracks |
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Wagon wheels, snowballs. |
