A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN (Tanya Brittain) Into harbour we sailed on the incoming tide Our fishing nets full of sardine One town to the starboard and one to the port And a river runs between. On the quayside she stood with her basket in hand Such beauty I've never since seen And she on the west bank and me on the east And a river runs between. And as we haul away, I'm still in yesterday Everything changed with the turn of the tide I paid the ferryman, anchors aweigh again My love for her I did never confide 'Cause a river runs between. The bridge-builders came with their Caradon stone Resistance they hadn't foreseen One town has the money, the other the sun And a river runs between And as we haul away, I'm still in yesterday Everything changed with the turn of the tide I paid the ferryman, anchors aweigh again My love for her I did never confide. And as we haul away, I'm still in yesterday Everything changed with the turn of the tide She way above me, my bride she will never be A bridge doesn't change things, the gap is too wide And a river runs between. So now there's a path from the east to the west And a pretty young maid of eighteen But a lifetime of conflict the two towns divide And a river runs between, And a river runs between.