The Cinder Track

The Cinder Track — (Eb Major)

(for Norma Carty’s Cinder Track)

Bramble, briar, and the berries’ fire Light up the Cinder Track, And if the buggers dig it up They won’t be coming back. Don’t let them tear its heart out! The heart that’s still in tune With the wending hills, It travels still By the pale light of the moon.

The blackbird and the nightingale They sing its beauty too, They live along the Cinder Track As many others do. And high above the Cinder Track The corncrake’s song will say Beware, beware, they have a plan
to take my home away.

Once along the Cinder Track The rush of steel and steam Through other days they made their way To the gold of the rich man’s dream. And once the Roman’s passed this way To claim the moor and sea; And the Cinder Track, the Cinder Track, It holds those memories.

Bramble, briar, and the berries’ fire Light up the Cinder Track And if the buggers dig it up They won’t be coming back.

They won’t be coming back.

— © Frank Callery. September , 2017.