The Ashby Canal Song Lyrics by Kryfold Sky. Created with Udio AI. In the heart of old Leicestershire Where the fields are green and wide There’s a ribbon of still waters Where the narrowboats gently glide It started back in 1794 When dreams began to steer When the dreamers and the diggers Made their ambitions clear Chorus: Oh the Ashby Canal Winding through the vale Built by hands of men Who laboured with pick and with pail From Marston to Moira Through the English countryside The Ashby Canal where history and water abide With shovels and with spade they carved through the land Through the clay and the gravel By the strength of their hands Twenty-two miles of waterway For coal and for lime Connecting towns and people Bridging space and time Chorus Through tunnels and through cuttings Over aqueducts so grand The Ashby flows with purpose A lifeline to the land But time and progress altered The waterways grand role Yet still it stands a testament To the dreams of old Chorus So here’s to the Ashby A jewel of England’s past May its waters keep on flowing And its legacy ever last This track was found on the YouTube channel Narrowboat Journeys. It was composed and recorded by a boater who creates music under the pseudonym Kryfold Sky. The AI tracks are generated with Udio.com. There is a very interesting video of how he does it here.