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Artist: Sandy Denny
Canonical path: /sandy-denny/it-ll-take-a-long-time
Related lyric paths: 6
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It'll Take a Long Time
Read It'll Take a Long Time lyrics by Sandy Denny on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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It'll Take a Long Time
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Oh it's like a storm at sea
And everything is lost
And the fretful sailors calling out their woes
As to the waves they're tossed
Oh they are all gentlemen
And never will they know
If there is a reason each of them must go
To join the cruel flow
And it'll take a long, long time
It'll take a long, long time
It'll take a long, long time
Oh it'll take such a long, long time
There is no need for rules
There's no-one to score the game
And there is nobody living in this town
As even knows it's name
Oh it'll take such a long, long time
It'll take a long, long time
It'll take a long, long time
A long, long time
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Sandy Denny performs "It'll Take a Long Time", and this lyric page sits inside the Sandy Denny catalog on LyroVerse.
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