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[Verse 1]

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I'm backing up the lorry, can't wait for night to come
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I'm sweeping out the back yard on a Friday afternoon
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We'll gather round the players and we'll head off for the stars
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Pack the van with poetry, drums and the guitars


[Verse 2]

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We'll take Billy for the whisky, Willie for the door
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We'll take Mary Kate and Lizzy for the dancing round the floor
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We'll turn this empty hall into city full of lights
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And lift the summer spirits through the passing of the night


[Chorus]

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There was laughing, and there were tears
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There were so many shattered hopes and dreams
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But there was treasure and 40 years
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In the place where the rivers run


[Verse 3]

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We'll hammer on the two-step, we'll lay it on the snare
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Romancing the accordion, waltzing out the aires
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These sacred swaying anthems, within our lover's grasp
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Stripping down the willow to the footsteps of the past


[Chorus]

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There was laughing, and there were tears
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There were so many shattered hopes and dreams
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But there was treasure and 40 years
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In the place where the rivers run


[Instrumental]

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[Bridge]

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We were kings and queens, the reels go round
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It's the badge of our culture, say it loud
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And it's all in the gift of the young and the proud
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In the place where the rivers run


[Verse 4]

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We're loading out the back door, now the hour is come
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Driving through the black hills with the red and rising sun
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There's a river and a distance, far as eyes can see
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Home by Kyle and Broadford round by Memphis Tennessee

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[Chorus]

C          D            C          G
There was laughing, and there were tears
C                  Em            Bm     D
There were so many shattered hopes and dreams
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But there was treasure and 40 years
G             D               G
In the place where the rivers run
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In the place where the rivers run
G             D               G
In the place where the rivers run


[Instrumental]

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