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letra de the march ditch - colum sands

i sat beside the march ditch when i was very small
i could hear the neighbours working in the field behind the wall
farmers’ children like ourselves, hungry mouths to feed
and spring was calling from the soil, it’s time to sow the seeds
spring was calling from the soil, it’s time to sow the seeds

i played beside the march ditch when i was four or five
a thrush told all the neighbours, it’s good to be alive
the corn was shooting through the soil as we ran to and fro
and people working in the fields watched their children grow
people working in the fields watched their children grow

i worked beside the march ditch when i was nine or ten
like the neigbours’ children, home from school again
but if schooldays separated us because of different creeds
our orders now were all the same, it’s time to pull the weeds
our orders now were all the same, it’s time to pull the weeds

at seventeen the march ditch heard me sing a song
turning hay on both sides now, as the days were turning long
we had a break in august, theirs was in july
but when one drop of rain would fall we’d all look at the sky
when one drop of rain would fall we’d all look at the sky

i sat beside the march ditch when i was twenty-five
my heart was feeling empty as the fields before my eyes
we’d heard it on the radio, another senseless death
but when it comes so close to home it chills like winter’s breath
when it comes so close to home it chills like winter’s breath
i look across the march ditch and every day i see
someone on the other side who looks a lot like me
to share this earth between us –how long does it need?
and spring is calling from the soil, it’s time to sow the seeds
spring is calling from the soil, it’s time to sow the seeds

- colum sands

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