# The Ghost Road

- Music: Granville Bantock (died 1946)
- Words: Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (died 1945)
- Licence of the score: CC0 1.0
- Credit: OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
- Source: https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/scores/6211549

## The words

The winds and the pines are whispering,  
The river girds in its flight,  
My footfalls sound through ancient tiles Where  
grey rats flit from sight.  
What monarch raised those palace walls?  
Who knows today his name Who left be- neath  
yon precipice The stone wrack of his fame?  
Like jets of dusky blue I see Ghosts from the  
gloom arise,  
Down the forgotten road return Strange  
rumours  
and faint sighs.  
The thousand voices of the void Blend to a  
chant bizarre, And the purple leaves are  
carpeted  
For Autumn’s avatar.  
The deathdoomed legions thunder past In the  
wake of fleeting years;  
I fain would drown their tramp with song,  
But all my songs are tears, but all my songs are  
tears.  

Songs to sing here are made from public-domain scores: the OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0), the Mutopia Project (each score's licence as Mutopia states it) and the scores in Japanese Wikipedia's articles (CC BY-SA 4.0, by each article's contributors); dates and first publications as IMSLP, the LiederNet Archive, Mutopia and Wikidata state them. Karaoke videos play in YouTube's player; live channels from the iptv-org database on their own pages; stations from Radio Browser. The piano is the Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0).