Tim Roe - Devils Dyke

 
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On Sussex soil many churches stand and their bells ring out oer the Wealdon land. 
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The village folk to the churches go, but this for the devil makes his anger grow. 
 

 
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He looked to the churches one by one and heard those bells when the day was done. 
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So he planned for to dig a ditch so wide, then to drown the Weald with the rising tide. 
 

 
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Devil's Dyke in runs very deep where Satan's plan was put to sleep 
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by a cockerel's crow and a woman brave, the devil's gone and the churches saved.  


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On the next the dark night with the world asleep,  the  devil toiled as he dug deep. 
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An old woman awoke and she saw his plan so out of her house to the downs she ran. 
 

 
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She carried a sieve and a candle bright, and climbed up the hill in the dark of night. 
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She raised the sieve and held it high and a golden glow lit up the sky. 
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Devil's Dyke in runs very deep where Satan's plan was put to sleep 
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by a cockerel's crow and a woman brave, the devil's gone and the churches saved.  


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The cock then crowed at the dawn's first light, and the devil heard it and he took flight. 
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Confused as the sun had come too quick and his work undone by this clever trick. 
 

 
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Today, Dyke Hill is calm and still and the tourists come to take their fill. 
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And the tale is told of the false daylight when the devil fled in the dead of night. 
 

 
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Devil's Dyke in runs very deep where Satan's plan was put to sleep 
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by a cockerel's crow and a woman brave, the devil's gone and the churches saved. 

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