THE BROTHERS FOUR
GREEN LEAVES OF SUMMER-Mi m
Brothers four
Wo... wo...
A time to be reaping
A time to be sowing
The green leaves of summer
Are calling me home
Twas so good to be young then
In the season of plenty
When the catfish were jumping
As high as the sky
A time just for planting
A time just for ploughing
A time to be courting
A girl of your own "
Twas so good to be young then
To be close to the earth
And to stand by your wife
At the moment of birth, wo...
A time to be reaping
A time to be sowing
A time just for living
A place for to die "
Twas so good to be young then
To be close to the earth
Now the green leaves of summer
Are calling me home "
Twas so good to be young then
To be close to the earth
Now the green leaves of summer
Are calling me home
500 MILES-Mi M
Brothers Four
If you miss the train I'm on
You will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
A hundred miles, a hundred miles
A hundred miles, a hundred miles
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
Lord, I'm one, Lord, I'm two
Lord, I'm three, Lord, I'm four
Lord, I'm 500 miles away from home
Away from home, away from home
Away from home, away from home
Lord, I'm 500 miles away from home
Not a shirt on my back
Not a penny to my name
Lord, I can't go back home this a-way
This a-way, this a-way
This a-way, this a-way
Lord, I can't go back home this a-way
If you miss the train I'm on
You will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles...
GREENFIELDS-Si m
Brothers Four
Once there were greenfields
Kissed by the sun
Once there were valleys
Where rivers used to run
Once there were blue skies
With white clouds high above
Once they were part of
An everlasting love
We were the lovers who strolled
Through greenfields
Greenfields are gone now
Parched by the sun
Gone from the valleys
Where rivers used to run
Gone with the cold wind
That swept into my heart
Gone with the lovers
Who let their dreams depart
Where are the greenfields that we
Used to roam
I'll never know what made you run away
How can I keep searching when dark clouds hide the day
I only know there's nothing here for me
Nothing in this wide world
left for me to see
But I'll keep on waiting
'Til you return
I'll keep on waiting
Until the day you learn
You can't be happy
While your heart's on a roam
You can't be happy
Until you bring it home
Home to the greenfields and me
Once again