In A Country Churchyard (Let Your Love Shine On)
In a country churchyard there's a preacher with his peopleGathered all around to join a man and womanSpring is here and turtledoves are singing from the steepleBees are in the flowers, growing in the graveyardAnd over the hill, where the river meets the millA lovely girl is coming downTo give her hand upon her wedding day
Dressed in simple white and wearing flowers in her hairMusic as she walks slowly to the altarAnd picking up his bible then the preacher turns towards her"Will you take this man to be your wedded husbandTo honour and love in the eyes of God aboveNow let the people sing with meThese words to live forever in your heart ...
Let your love shine onFor we are the stars in the skyLet your love shine strongUntil the day you fly away"
Many years have fallen on that golden country morningThe graveyard's overgrown, the church it lies in ruinsIvy on the walls and ravens wheeling round above meAs I made my way towards the last remaining headstoneI fell to my knees, read the lines beneath the leavesAnd suddenly it seemed to meI heard the words like singing in the trees ...
"Let your love shine onFor we are the stars in the skyLet your love shine strongUntil the day you fly ...
Let your love shine onFor we are the stars in the skyLet your love shine strongUntil the day you fly away"