Lyrics Not Even the Ground / Two Ladies - Martin Simpson , Andy Cutting , Nancy Kerr

Generations these words have been brewing
Like rocks pressing down underground out of sight
When poverty threatens your ruin
You have to sing songs to keep fires alight
So I'll follow wherever you wander
Your flame and my fire should meet
Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder
Not even the ground under true lovers' feet
Grandfathers and fathers and brothers
Are old bones gone for coal and for oil and for gold
Now shale it makes steamers of other
But I dream of you between me and the cold
So I'll follow wherever you wander
Your flame makes my fire complete
Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder
Not even the ground under true lovers' feet
Each season's a sensitive notion
As fraught as a love that we wish to be true
As the caught fish remembers the ocean
We're eternally bathed in the mem'ry of blue
So I'll follow wherever you wander
Your rain on my garden was sweet
Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder
Not even the tears that will fall
On the ground under true lovers' feet
Believe it's our greed that's the enemy
And spread your toes broad in the soil below
Relieved that they can't mine the memory
Of the heat of the sun as it melted the snow
So I'll follow wherever you wander
Your flame and my fire should meet
Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder
Not even the tears that will fall on the bones
That lie deep in the ground under true lovers' feet
So I'll follow wherever you wander
Your flame makes my fire complete
Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder
Not even the ground under true lovers' feet