Tales From The Riverbank

by The Jam

From the album: Snap!

Track 25 of 33 on Snap! (1983).

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Lyrics for Tales From The Riverbank

Bring you a tale from the pastel fields Where we ran when we were young This is a tale from the water meadows Trying to spread some hope into your heart It's mixed with happiness, it's mixed with tears Both life and death are carried in this stream That open space you could run for miles Now you don't get so many to the pound True it's a dream mixed with nostalgia But it's a dream that I'll always hang on to That I'll always run to Won't you join me by the riverbank Paradise found down by the still waters Joined in the race to the rainbow's end No fears, no worries just a golden country Woke at sunrise, went home at sunset Now life is so critical, life is too cynical We lose our innocence, we lose our very soul True it's a dream mixed with nostalgia But it's a dream that I'll always hang on to That I'll always run to True it's a dream mixed with nostalgia But it's a dream that I'll always hang on to That I always run to Won't you join me by the riverbank Come on and join me by the riverbank

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  4. The Modern World
  5. News Of The World
  6. Billy Hunt
  7. English Rose
  8. Mr. Clean
  9. David Watts
  10. "A" Bomb In Wardour Street
  11. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
  12. Strange Town
  13. The Butterfly Collector
  14. When You're Young
  15. Smithers-Jones
  16. Thick As Thieves
  17. The Eton Rifles
  18. Going Underground
  19. Dreams Of Children
  20. That's Entertainment
  21. Start!
  22. Man In The Corner Shop
  23. Funeral Pyre
  24. Absolute Beginners
  25. Tales From The Riverbank
  26. Town Called Malice
  27. Precious
  28. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
  29. Beat Surrender
  30. Move On Up
  31. Get Yourself Together
  32. The Great Depression
  33. But I'm Different Now