Seize the Day: 'High Hills Lament' (with lyrics) Live in Santa Barbara

Theo's beautiful song laments the lost world of the forests of Olde England and the disappearing old-growth redwoods of California. Earth's primeval forests consumed by human greed

And I dreamed I was going
Where tall trees are growing
Where nine rivers flowing
Roll down to the sea.
When I woke to hear crying,
Lamenting and sighing.
Men in yellow arriving
To fell the last tree.

High hills of our Fathers
Round hills of our Mothers
Green hills of my people
Who used to be free.
Scraped away to make room for
Some global consumer
Whose growth like a tumor
Eats England and me.

I'm a lover of England
Her wildlife and wisdom
I have walked the land o're
And I've seen what's been done.
On those roads I have followed
Through a land that's been swallowed
Land tortured and hollowed
For three pounds a ton.

And I'll hear no excuses
For those whose abuses
Have put to such uses
This land of our birth.
'Till there's nothing grows off it
But slag heaps of profit
For some high flyer not fit
To live on this Earth.

Let their slaves justify it
They cannot deny it
Though nightly they try it
And seem to succeed.
That our world has been wasted
Skinned, skewered and basted
For a dream which once tasted
Consumed us with greed.

Are my people half dead then
From a lie that's been fed them
Those bribes which have bled them
Of courage and power?
While our last open spaces
All those sweet special places,
Are forgotten like faces
That used to be ours.

And I dreamed I was going
Where tall trees are growing
Where nine rivers flowing
Roll down to the sea.
'Tis the Isle of the Blessed there
But I'll never rest there,
'Till there's no life oppressed there
And my land is free. Theo Simon

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[sheilagreenfair]

It was written for the A34 protest when the forests in Berkshire and Hampshire were cleared to make way for a new motorway.

[pinkithinks]

Thank you MrNorthview,

I absolutely love this song and Theo & Shannon and beautiful Britain but now more than ever ( with the proposed selling off of HALF of Britains forests ) it has such relevance...

"Tis the Isle of the blessed there but I'll never rest there, till there's no life oppressed there and my land is free"