A Village Drowned

words and music by Elizabeth Sidebotham

In a valley, time forgotten was my home, was my home

In dark and watery depths in my mind. Like a fish still I play

But the memories fade

I used to watch the sun as it played upon the rocks, as it played upon the rocks

And hear the chime of the old church clock

One, strikes the hour, two the seconds ticking, three the hand of time, Four moves slowly on. The moment’s nigh

Then they came with their bulldozers and their trucks. Is there no shame?

And the place I had known as a boy, and the life I had lived was washed away

A vast stretch of water is all you can see

My village, my home all gone and my friends where are they now?

And in the name of progress, lost with my dreams, lost

Sheet music for all of these pieces for TTBB male voices is available.