Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows

      Grantchester Meadows is a Roger Waters song, originally performed solo on the ‘Ummagumma’ album, which celebrates the English countryside. This special group performance, taped for the BBC, with acoustic guitars and vocals from Roger Waters and David Gilmour, plus additional piano from Richard Wright and taped songbirds, successfully evokes a summer’s day in Grantchester, a small village close to Cambridge, England.

Icy wind of night, be gone. This is not your domain.

In the sky a bird is heard to cry.

Misty morning whisperings and gentle stirring sounds

Belied a deathly silence that lay all around.

Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox gone to ground.

See the splashing of the kingfisher flashing to the water.

And a river of green is sliding unseen beneath the trees,

Laughing as it passes through the endless summer making for the sea.

In the lazy water meadow I lay me down.

All around me, golden sunflakes settle on the ground,

Basking in the sunshine of a by gone afternoon,

Bringing sounds of yesterday into this city room.

      Pink Floyd's musical compositions will always be greatly appreciated by those of us that love beauty. Their genius wasn't just playing instruments but also experimenting with sound and manipulating it to induce emotional, mental and physical sensations. This song is lyrical and bucolic which circles blessed purity.