In A Country Churchyard

In a country churchyard, there's a preacher with his people

Gathered all around to join a man and woman

Spring is here and turtle doves are singing from the steeple

Bees are in the flowers, growing in the graveyard

And over the hill, where the river meets the mill

A lovely girl is coming down

To give her hand upon her wedding day.

Dressed in simple white and wearing flowers in her hair

Music as she walks slowly to the altar

And picking up his Bible then the preacher turns towards her

"Will you take this man to be your wedded husband

To honour and love in the eyes of God above

Now let the people sing with me

The words to live forever in your heart...

Let your love shine on

For we are the stars in the sky

Let your love shine strong

Until the day you fly-- fly away"

Many years have fallen on that golden country morning

The graveyard's overgrown, the church lies in ruins

Ivy on the walls and ravens wheeling round above me

As I made my way towards the last remaining headstone

I fell to my knees, read the lines beneath the leaves

And suddenly it seemed to me

I heard the words like singing in the trees...

"Let your love shine on

For we are the stars in the sky

Let your love shine strong

Until the day you fly...

Let your love shine on

For we are the stars in the sky

Let your love shine strong

Until the day you fly...

Fly away"...