Bridge Of Dean
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Leith Waters run, Leith Waters flow
And times washed down as melted snow
There sleeps the unnamed girl, laid low
With tangled hair pulled to and fro
Her life dragged to the undertow
Down by the Bridge of Dean
All Hallows' Eve left ghosts there
In bonfire night's chill, wood-smoked air
Her same old path to home seems strange
That friendly way so rearranged
Each well-known tree took evil shape
Down by the Bridge of Dean
She's crossed Dean Bridge and dropped down right
And left behind safe city's lights
Gone wandering home, quite out of sight
Each bang and flash, a firework bright
Left her shaking by the riverside
Down by the Bridge of Dean
So scared she runs for Saunders Street
In tripping steps and heart-skip beat
While man-made thunder splits the sky
Hygieia cries as she runs by
But the roaring river spurs her on
Down by the Bridge of Dean
That creeping feeling something's wrong
She's glancing back and running on
Down to the arch and almost there
A hand grabs out behind a stair
Why can no one hear her screaming there?
Down by the Bridge of Dean
The healing draughts of Saint Bernard's Well
They could not help her as she fell
Down in the water still she lies
With reaching hands and pleading eyes
But no one knows as they walk by
Down by the Bridge of Dean
No sign to mark the place
Save a lonely pink glove half-buried in mud
Oh sing on high you church bells, toll
An hourly mass to the unnamed girl
For her lonely, lost, forgotten soul
Down by the Bridge of Dean