I wrote this song about the time before Brexit, when we had migrants helping us, and before Putin invaded Ukraine.

Verse 1
It was a pickers party at a works canteen,
That’s where I met her
She said “I hope you are not American? They’re all mad
And the Britishers aren’t much better”
She said she worked for the KGB,
Olga from the Volga was her code name.
I said “I’m Mick from the Styx I’m with MI6
And we know your little game”.
We danced that night ‘neath white fluorescent lights,
Drank off table tops of formica
But when we went outside into the warm summer night
I decided “I really like her”

She used to say
Chorus
Give me a pair of minutes
Wait for me through the door
I will always love you for ever
Da Da Da

Verse 2
We picked pears apples, and potatoes
Through the days in the orchards and the farms
We spent the nights talking and loving
Wrapped in each others arms.
I took her home to see my folks
They fell in love with her just like me.
She said “You must all come to visit me at home
And we’ll go swimming in the Black sea”
Sometimes she said she came from Gorgia,
Lithuania or the Ukraine
Romania, Moldova I’m ashamed to say
But to me they were all the same

She used to say
Chorus

Verse 3
The end of the season came around
When the pickers all head back home
We gathered for a farewell drink
To copy emails and addresses to our phones.
In the station bar we all crammed in,
Lots of pickers but not much noise
As I took out my phone to put her details in,
She looked at me with watery eyes.
She said “I’m going to put some powder on my nose”
Then she took a little sip of wine
Then she kissed me gently on the forehead
I guess I knew it was the very last time.

She said
Give me a pair of minutes
Wait for me through the door
I will always love you forever
But I never saw her no more.

Chorus

Verse 1
Good Morrow Ginny Jane
At last we meet a gain
It’s been such a long time
A hundred years or more
Since last I saw your charms
Since I held you in my arms
The world has moved around us
You haven’t changed at all.

Verse 2
Do you still dream of dragons
And copper covered wagons
When the world was young and we were strong
And magic was every where
Well the time of man grows shorter
As the ice turns to water
We’ll rise again, paint the skies again
In a world true and fair.

Refrain
Oh the woods they are wide
And the paths they go on forever
There are places to rest
and to stay for a day  Our friends of the trees and the streams
Will betray us never
Forever true
Come what will come what may.

Verse 3
In the kingdoms of Northumbria
And Westmoreland and Cumbria
There you’ll find people who are
Forever true
To the ways of their fathers
And their fathers’ fathers
To the old way, to our ways
To me and to you.

Refrain
Oh the woods they are wide
And the paths they go on forever
There are places to rest
and to stay for a day
Our friends of the trees and the streams
Will betray us never
Forever true
Come what will come what may.

Verse 4
Good Morrow Ginny Jane
At last we meet a gain
It’s been such a long time
a hundred years at least  Let’s take some of forever
And spend some time together
Then go our ways until the days
When we will be released.