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It Was A Conquest Of Paradise, At Several Stages Throughout The Ages, Now, we Must Pay

Don’t Pay The FerrymanIt was late at night on the open road,Speeding like a man on the run,A lifetime spent preparing for the journey;He is closer now and the search is on,Reading from a map in the mind,Yes there’s the ragged hill,And there’s the boat on the river.And when the rain came down,He heard a wild dog howl,There were voices in the night, “Don’t do it!”Voices out of sight, “Don’t do it!Too many men have failed before,Whatever you do,Don’t pay the ferryman,Don’t even fix a price,Don’t pay the ferryman,Until he gets you to the other side”In the rolling mist, then he gets on board,Now there’ll be no turning back,Beware that hooded old man at the rudder,And then the lightning flashed, and the thunder roared,And people calling out his name,And dancing bones that jabbered and a-moanedOn the water.And then the ferryman said,”There is trouble ahead,So you must pay me now, ” “Don’t do it!””You must pay me now, ” “Don’t do it!”And still that voice came from beyond,”Whatever you do,Don’t pay the ferryman,Don’t even fix a price,Don’t pay the ferryman,Until he gets you to the other side;Don’t pay – the ferryman!”Source: LyricFindSongwriters: Chris De Burgh

DON’T PAY THE FERRYMAN

Where there was darkness, we shared ours; we shared our technology, our science, and our faith, to every corner of the globe we went, Norsemen, Romans, Portuguese, Spaniards, Briton’s, Germans, Swedes, Belgians, and so many more came, to all 5 continents and known islands every one of them, baring the gift of knowledge, enterprise, and industry. Every man and woman, of these pale-riders, emerging from the womb filled with an unquenchable thirst for adventure and discovery of unknown places and things. Those were glorious and golden centuries and now we, their fair-skinned, flaxen-haired descendants, must pay the ferryman on the river Styx, for having used their God-given talents to this world a better place. 

CONQUEST OF PARADISE

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