This beautifully poignant song was written by Najarra’s grandfather and was released as a single in 1970.

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We Have It All

Written by Tony Townsend

Performed by Archway

Verse
If I could call you day or night,
And you could join me,
Down by the stream,
Where we’d be lovers out of sight,
You know we can’t be,
It’s just a dream.
This stream is concrete running dry,
There’s not a tree there to lie beside,
We only meet so we can cry,
With tender souls bare, from death we hide,

Chorus
And now within their steel nest,
They ride the concrete motorway,
They made the land give them the best,
And left the debt for us to pay.

Verse
I dreamed the world has changed my love,
The stream is running,
The tree is tall,
And you are here beside me love,
We have a good thing,
We have it all

Solo

Chorus
And now within our steel nest,
We ride the concrete motorway,
We made the land give us the best,
And left the debt for all to pay.

Verse
I dreamed the world has changed my love,
The stream is running,
The tree is tall,
And you are here beside me love,
We have a good thing,
We have it all

 

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