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Five miles in from the cold North Sea
Just a stone's throw from the River Tees
Stand the ruins of the church of the Trinity
Long long time passing
And by the ruins of the church of the Trinity
There's stood for many centuries
The proud and dark witch's tree from
A long long time ago

As folk lore tells it has been said
South of the village a woman lived
With healing in her hands and knowledge to give
Long long time passing
And she'd go to where the great oaks stood
Down into the shadowed wood
To gather herbs when the moon was full
A long long time ago

And to the village on a summer's day
Ring a rosy came the plague
"Evil is upon us" she heard them say
Long long time passing
The healer woman they sought to blame
And to her cottage in anger came
To burn the witch with a holy flame
A long long time ago

In their madness they will blame her, violate and shame her
So to the church on sacred ground in desperation she did flee
But the holy man would not hear her and barred the great doors to her
And with the evil of the Roman church denied her sanctuary

To the iron gate with burning torches high
In fury they screamed the witch must die
Her life to take in vain they tried
Long long time passing
But supreme magick she did conjure
From mother earth to make her stronger
A tree she formed forever longer
A long long time ago

In the year of 1983
Vandals burned the Trinity
But not the proud witches' tree
It still stands from long ago

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