Five hundred thousand english pounds
For this old house and a piece of ground
You and your wife you've always planned
To settle down in the Cotswold lands
Well you best come in and you best sit down
It's such a long drive from London town
Would you like some tea now while I tell
The reasons why I will not sell
You best come in and you best sit down
It's such a long drive from London town
You best come in and you best sit down
It's such a long drive from London town
This stone built house that you call "nice"
Was built at far too high a price
For me to gaily sign away
What others toiled for night and day
Well they hammered bluestone by the yard
And found the rent when times were hard
They lived and died beneath the sun
Tending the fields you gaze upon
You best come in and you best sit down
It's such a long drive from London town
You best come in and you best sit down
It's such a long drive from London town
Well they're all gone but as for me
The wild hare still roams as free
And at dusk the badger travels still
Ancestral highways on the hill
I'm as Cotswold bred as all these
And I still need these fields and trees
I need the soil that bore my race
And holds their bones beneath this place
You best come in and you best sit down
It's such a long drive from London town
You best come in and you best sit down
It's such a long drive from London town
Enough for me this cot of stone
A mite of land to call my own
A friend to drink with, wife to smile
And Cotswold country by the mile
So take your cup and drain it down
You would-be peasant from the town
Go on your journey let me bide
Content in my own countryside