Lilydale

[ music: robert buck/lyric: natalie merchant ]







Come as we go far away

From the noise of the street

Walk a path so narrow

To a place where we feel at ease



Some think it is haunting

To be drawn to the cemetery ground

As we

There's a stillness here

Thankful found



Child's pose angelic

A stone lamb at her feet

Part the matted overgrowth

To read the carven elegy



Some think it so haunting

To be drawn to the cemetery ground

As we

There's a stillness here

Thankful found



Born in new albion

Of rice family elite

Wed to myron bilowe

Thrice with sons

Blessed was she

Some think it so haunting

To be drawn to the cemetery ground

As we

God's acre is a fenced in

Hollow ground



Here soon to rise up

Amelia tender and sweet

Her last words spoke

All is well

All is peace



Some think it so haunting

To be drawn to the cemetery ground

As we

God's acre is a fenced in

Hollow ground




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