DEAR RIVER THAMES

(Digance/McTell)

Dear River Thames you keep moving along,
Not knowing where you're going, nor where you've come from.
You heads in the valley your feet in the sea.
Dear River Thames,
Stay a while,
Stay a while,
Listen to me.

Dear River Thames distress floods my mind,
Through London's grey pastures so bleak and unkind.
Clear blue through meadows, darker through towns,
Dear River Thames
Stay by me,
Stay by me,
And don't let me down.

Dear River Thames sail me down to the sea,
Where seagulls sing anthems and circle round free.
And there I shall rest where the waters descend,
Dear River Thames,
For the right,
I must confide,
That you are my friend.