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My daughter used to worry her Dad
It was all about a fear she had
Each night she'd call me up the stair
To exorcise ghosts that were not there

So we had a long chat about ghoulies and stuff
And finally I thought I'd done enough
They don't exist, we'd at last agreed
and for Dad's rescues there was no more need

But then one night, while I was pottering around
a familiar sh...

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ghosts

Back home

Walked 'round the town where I was born and bred

Places changed, friends gone, some dead,


Fading ghosts of streets that were home to me

Where I'd played as a child, young and fancy-free

The glow of the smiles that used to be

On the faces of friends I knew.


Wraiths of ships built on the river there

Faint echoes of their horns on the misty air

Phant...

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Ghosts

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