Buzzards over Knighton

Buzzards over Knighton

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[Verse 1]  
Early light on the pasture ground  
A silence broken by the sound  
Of wings above the morning haze  
Wide and slow in graceful phase  
A shape against the azure blue  
Higher than the seagulls flew  
They circle once then rise and fall  
We stop to listen for their call  

[Chorus]  
Kee-ah kee-ah high and free  
Over hedge and field and sea  
Riding wind that we can’t see  
The buzzards fly for you and me  

[Verse 2]  
Crows come out with noisy pride  
Dancing at the buzzard’s side  
Seagulls dive with reckless aim  
But still the hunter stays the same  
No fluster just a single sweep  
A shadow passing over sheep  
Then gone again with wings outspread  
A ruler of the sky o’erhead  

[Chorus]  
Kee-ah kee-ah high and free  
Over hedge and field and sea  
Riding wind that we can’t see  
The buzzards fly for you and me  

[Bridge]  
We walk these lanes we till this land  
But never with that same command  
They own the air they own the view  
A call that always carries through  

[Verse 3]  
Evening comes the skies turn red  
They settle quiet near the shed  
On telegraph or twisted tree  
They perch like sentries watching me  
Tomorrow when the sun climbs high  
We’ll see them paint across the sky  
And once again their cry will start  
A wild clean echo through the heart  

[Chorus]  
Kee-ah kee-ah high and free  
Over hedge and field and sea  
Riding wind that we can’t see  
The buzzards fly for you and me