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Artist: Incredible String Band
Canonical path: /incredible-string-band/greatest-friend
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Greatest Friend
Read Greatest Friend lyrics by Incredible String Band on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Greatest Friend
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The greatest friend I have in life
Has brought me here to dwell
Awhile among your green green hills
All by the watery well
The water from that wondrous well
Has made my eyes to see
And loosed my tongue to sing with joy
That such a griend can be
The greatest friend I have in life
Was hidden long from me
Above the mountains cold and wide
Beneath the sacred tree
That sacred tree whose bark I touched
Whose leaves did tell to me
The ancient tales that made me sure
My friend would come to me
My greatest friend a song has given
To sing where I may go
To sing among the green green hills
And where the waters flow
The waters from that wondrous well
That made my eyes to see
And made my mind to ever show
My greatest friend to me.
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Incredible String Band performs "Greatest Friend", and this lyric page sits inside the Incredible String Band catalog on LyroVerse.
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