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Walking With Wainwright
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Phil Drane
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Alfred was an English lad, from Blackburn, Lancashire,
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At the age of twenty three he took a trip up North to Windermere,
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Where the Lakeland Fells, can stir the soul of a man
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That's how Alfred's love affair with Cumbria began
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Now it's 80 years since Wainright first set foot in Windermere
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When he scrambled up to Orrest Head, on that morning bright and clear
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He saw woodlands and pastures green, how endless mountains ranged
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And the office lad from Lancashire, his life forever changed
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Now he guides our footsteps over those ancestral byways
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Uncharted paths our forebears trod before,
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Now his pictures and his words, set us free to soar like birds
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Over Cumbrian hillside, beck and moor
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Pike o'Stickle, soaring, like a pyramid stands alone
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And on Martcrag Moor, Neolithic man carved axes made of stone
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And in these Central Fells why not bide and drink your fill
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For there's warm ale and good company in the bar of the Dungeon Ghyll
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Now Alfred guides us over the highest of mountains,
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Scawfell Pike, Helvellyn, Great Gable and Skiddaw,
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And if the great outdoors, the fells and moors are what set your spirit free,
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The Cumbrian hills is where you'll be
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Walking with Wainright and me
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By the lofty ridge of Mickledore, across the wide Traverse
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Through the cleft called Fat Man's Agony, that all but thin men curse
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These Southern Fells, Alfred's words commend it's worth
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'A little piece of heaven that has fallen on the earth'
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By Bassenthwaite and Derwent then, the sweeping slopes pass by
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Beyond The Edge and Buzzard Nott, Gibraltar Crag stands high
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Here in the Northern Fells, John Peel did a-hunting go
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But above the ghylls and the rolling hills, Blencathra steals the show
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Now Alfred guides us etc
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Now Alfred guides us over the highest of mountains,
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Scawfell Pike, Helvellyn, Great Gable and Skiddaw,
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And if the great outdoors, the fells and moors are what set your spirit free,
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The Cumbrian hills is where you'll be
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Walking with Wainright, Walking with Wainright
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Walking with Wainright and me
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Walking with Wainright and me
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