Bovey Don't You Wait For Me

Verse 1

Old Bovey runs muddy past the mill

Her water's cold as a winter thrill

I dropped a penny off the Wray

Watched it sink and drift away

Chorus

Roll on river roll on by

Carry my worries to the sea

Roll on river roll on by

Bovey don't you wait for me

Verse 2

My father fished here years ago

He'd bait a hook with bread and throw

He taught me patience taught me rain

Taught me how to hold the pain

Chorus

Roll on river roll on by

Carry my worries to the sea

Roll on river roll on by

Bovey don't you wait for me

Bridge

Granite banks and bracken brown

Every spring she rises up

Every winter settles down

Settles down

Verse 3

I left for London left for work

Came back a stranger to this town

Still that river never slows

Still she flows still she flows

Chorus

Roll on river roll on by

Carry my worries to the sea

Roll on river roll on by

Bovey don't you wait for me

Bovey don't you wait for me