White chalk hills are all I've known White chalk hills will rot my bones White chalk sticking to my shoes White chalk playing as a child with you Oooh ooh ooooh Oooh ooh ooooh White chalk stands against time White chalk cutting down the sea at night I walk the valleys by the surf On a path cut fifteen hundred years ago And I know these chalk hills will rot my Dorset's cliffs meet at the sea Where I walked our unborn child in me White chalk, poor scattered land Scratch my palms There's blood on my hands