Forgotten Beech Grove

From The Bills’ 2016 album “Trail of Tales

Words and Music by:
CHRIS FRYE & RICHARD MOODY (SOCAN)


Let’s go down to that forgotten Beech Grove
Run our hands over the smooth white bark
We’ll leave our love there a-shining
Long after day has turned to dark

Great grandma was born in Seal Cove, Grand Manan
Not a shadow’s throw down the rock from her father’s fishing weir
She moved out west to Rupert but through all her living days
When she cried Atlantic salt flowed in her tears

From Dunseverick cliffs and caves to the frozen Outaouais
And a townland home with a view on the steps the giant strode
Over shifting seas and soil in sorrow and in dreams
We are floating on the harvest they bestowed