Nana Mouskouri - Ash Grove lyrics

The ash grove, how graceful
How plainly `tis speaking

Whenever the light through it's
Branches is breaking
A host of kind faces is gazing on me
The friends of my childhood
Again are before me
Each step wakes a memory as freely I roam
With soft whispers laden it's
Leaves rustle o`er me

My laughter is over, my step loses lightness
Old countryside measures steal soft on my ear
I only remember the past and it's brightness

From out of the shadows their
Loving looks greet me
And wistfully searching the leafy green dome
I find other faces fond bending to greet me
The ash grove, the ash grove alone is my home
My lips smile no more
My heart loses it's lightness
No dream of my future my spirit can cheer
I only can brood on the
Past and it's brightness
The dead I have mourned are again living here
From ev`ry dark nook they press
Forward to meet me
I lift up my eyes to the broad leafy dome
And others are there looking
Downward to greet me
The ash grove, the ash grove alone is my home