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TO WALES
© 2007 by David Llewellyn

Oh I promised I would come with you
When your family stole you away
‘Cross the ocean wide, to America
And a new life, and a new day
To a new life, and a new day

And I’ve tried to love these new pastures
But they’re nothing like where I’m from
This is foreign soil beneath my feet
And though I try, I just can’t belong
Oh I try, but I don’t belong

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I miss those hay days
And those soft summer nights
And you soft in my arms
Oh tell me I’m crazy
Cause you’re here with me now
But it ain’t the same
And I’m going back, to Wales
I’m going back

And down in the harbor, sits a charter
Where it waits the morning tide
Where it waits ‘til I can beg you darling
Won’t you change your mind?
And come back with me, and we will see
As the sun breaks through that dawn
The cliffs of Pembroke and those hills of heather
Welcoming us home

Though I swore I’d put it behind me
Taint a day I don’t look back
‘Cross that ocean wide, to America
And what became of all that
Oh what became of all that