A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN (Tanya Brittain)
Into harbour we sailed on the incoming tide
Our fishing nets full of sardine
One town to the starboard and one to the port
And a river runs between.
On the quayside she stood with her basket in hand
Such beauty I've never since seen
And she on the west bank and me on the east
And a river runs between.
And as we haul away, I'm still in yesterday
Everything changed with the turn of the tide
I paid the ferryman, anchors aweigh again
My love for her I did never confide
'Cause a river runs between.
The bridge-builders came with their Caradon stone
Resistance they hadn't foreseen
One town has the money, the other the sun
And a river runs between
And as we haul away, I'm still in yesterday
Everything changed with the turn of the tide
I paid the ferryman, anchors aweigh again
My love for her I did never confide.
And as we haul away, I'm still in yesterday
Everything changed with the turn of the tide
She way above me, my bride she will never be
A bridge doesn't change things, the gap is too wide
And a river runs between.
So now there's a path from the east to the west
And a pretty young maid of eighteen
But a lifetime of conflict the two towns divide
And a river runs between,
And a river runs between.