English-Dutch Dialogues - V

A (4) B (1) C (1) D (1) F (1) G (1) H (4) I (10) K (1) L (2) N (1) P (1) S (1) T (9) V (3) W (6)

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Verse 1 (The Village)	at home I still have a postcard on which a church, a cart with horse a butcher’s shop J. van der Ven a pub, a lady on a bike it tells you most probably nothing but it is where I was born this village, I still know how it was the farm children in the classroom a cart that rattles on the cobblestones the town hall with a pump in front of it a dirt road through the grain the cattle, the farms	Learn
Verse 2 (The Village)	how simply they lived back then in simple houses among greenery with country flowers and a hedge but apparently they lived wrongly the village has been modernised and now they are on the right track because see how rich life is they watch quizzes on the telly and live in concrete boxes with a whole lot of glass, so you can see how the couch is at Mien’s and on the sideboard with plastic roses	Learn
Verse 3 (The Village)	the village youths stick together in miniskirt and Beatles hair and shouts along with beat music I know it’s their good right the new time, just what you say but it makes me rather melancholic I still knew their fathers they bought liquorice for a cent I saw their mother’s skipping rope that village from back then, it’s gone This is all that remained for me. a postcard and memories	Learn