The River Rolls On Lyrics

The River Rolls On

Dawn, sun is rising over Fowey and its quay  

Run, timeless river, from the moor to the sea 

Like the tides  and the seasons cycling by, without end  

One lone ferry joins their dance 

  

Few are the words that the old Ferryman speaks 

He carries his people silently to the beach 

With a three fingered greeting,  which is better than two 

Across the harbour one more time    

  

(Chorus)  

And the river rolls on, cross the moors 

To the Fowey and the Polruan shores 

With so many lives whose living relies 

On its undying flow,            

It rolls it’s way down to the sea, past the docks to the wave-battered quay 

With stories to share of those who live there 

And the river rolls on 

 

Find reassurance in these permanent things 

The tides, the ferry and the sunrise and the gulls on the wing 

As the river continues, never fades never ends  

The ferry floats, silent, by the quay 

  

Dawn, sun is rising on the Ferry’s last wake 

One final crossing does the Ferryman make 

Like the tides and seasons and the river and sea 

The ferryman’s spirit will be free 

(Chorus)

   

But time moves along like that unending flow 

And people they come and people may go 

Now the ferryman’s gone  

And life carries on 

But his memory lives on in the words of a song 

And the stories get told once again 

As the river rolls on, cross the moors 

To the Fowey and the Polruan shores 

With so many lives whose living relies 

On its undying flow,            

It rolls it’s way down to the sea, past the docks to the wave-battered quay 

With stories to share of those who live there 

And the river rolls on…