Henry's Songbook

Chorus:
It's around and around and around went the big sails
Turning the shafts and the great wooden wheels.
Creaking and groaning, the millstones kept turning
Grinding to flour the good corn from the fields

In days gone by when the world was much younger
Man harnessed the wind for to work for mankind
Seamen built tall ships to sail o'er the ocean.
Landsmen built windmillsthe corn for to grind

In Flanders and Spain and the lowlands of Holland
In the kingdoms of England and Scotland and Wales
Windmills grew up all along the wild coastline
Ships of the land with their high canvas sails

Windmills of old wood all blacked by weather
Windmills of stone, glaring white in the sun
Windmills like giants ready for tilting
Windmills that died in the gales and they're gone

(as sung by The McCalmans)