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Maid Of The River Tab

by Levellers


She's the maid of the river

So beautifully plain

As fresh as the country

That gave her her name

As crisp as the snow

And as swift as the rain

She shone like the sun

Before all of our games

She shone like a jewel

But her price was not gold

She cried more than most

When her story was told

But her people were evil

Left her baron and cold

And her heart went to market

Where her body was sold

Chorus

                       
I said hey hey won't you take me away
                     
Because I can't see the point
       
In the dawn of the day
                        
When so many killers gonna take you away
                              
And leave little left except hatred
       
She's the goddess of love
        
The goddess in green
        
The goddess of all
      
That I've ever seen
        
Goddess of hope
        
The goddess in brown
       
The goddess of all

That you've burned to the ground
Chorus

(repeat chord sequence throughout )

There's all kind of hatred
Flows out of man's hands
There's the hatred that strangles
The throat of a man
But the worst of all hatred
Is that which is planned
Against what we have
In this goddess of land
Chorus