Abergavenny

Album: Greatest Hits: Born to Rock and Roll (1968)
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  • Taking a trip up to Abergavenny
    Hoping the weather is fine
    If you should see a red dog running free
    Well, you know he's mine

    A chase in the hills up to Abergavenny
    I've got to get there and fast
    If you can't go
    Then I promise to show you a photograph

    Ah, passing the time with paradise people
    Paradise people are fine by me
    Sunshine forever, lovely weather
    Don't you wish you could be.....

    Taking a trip up to Abergavenny
    Hoping the weather is fine
    If you should see a red dog running free
    Well, you know he's mine

    Ah, passing the time with paradise people
    Paradise people are fine by me
    Sunshine forever, lovely weather
    Don't you wish you could be.....

    A chase in the hills up to Abergavenny
    I've got to get there and fast
    If you can't go
    Then I promise to show you a photograph
    A little photograph, a little photograph
    Up to Abergavenny

    La-la-la-la...... Writer/s: FRERE MANSTON, JACK GELLER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Stephen Vaughan from Salisbury What a great song... I've been to Abergavenny many times and I worked with cy Payne and Phil Shannon(DoM Irish guards)
  • Philip Shannon Mbe from LondonI was the Director of Music of the band of the Irish Guards in 2010 when Cy and Marty performed the song in our practice room in Wellington Barracks. What a treasured memory!
  • Aurora from IndianaI love this song.
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