Nic Jones - Green to Grey lyrics

All around the country They're changing green to grey. What grows up for a century, In a minute you can throw it away. They come down here with chainsaws, They come down with JCBs. They're digging up all of the hedgerows, boys, And they're digging up all of the trees. All around the country They're changing green to grey. What grows up for a century, In a minute you can throw it away. Saw the man, the engineer, Pocket-full of TNT. And he laid it under the mountain side And blew it to eternity. All around the country They're changing green to grey. What grows up for a century, In a minute you can throw it away. I lived down by the meadow, I used to live down by the wood. But they've come down with bricks and ready-mix And there's a city where the trees once stood. All around the country They're changing green to grey. What grows up for a century, In a minute you can throw it away. You can spend your lifetime Writing to bureaucracy. But you'll use up so much paper, You'll just be digging up another tree. All around the country They're changing green to grey. What grows up for a century, In a minute you can throw it away. They come down here with chainsaws, They come down with JCBs. They're digging up all of the hedgerows, boys, And they're digging up all of the trees. All around the country They're changing green to grey. What grows up for a century, In a minute you can throw it away.