《The Recruited Collier》歌词

歌曲： The Recruited Collier

所属专辑：Somebody Counts On Me

歌手： Barbara Dickson

时长： 02:34

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Oh what's the matter with you my lass[00:02:34]

And where's your dashing Jimmy[00:02:34]

The soldier boys have picked him up[00:02:34]

And sent him far, far from me[00:02:34]

Last payday he went into town[00:02:34]

And them red-coated fellows[00:02:34]

Enticed him in and made him drunk[00:02:34]

An he'd better gone to the gallows[00:02:34]

The very sight of his cockade[00:02:34]

It sets us all a-crying[00:02:34]

And me I nearly fainted twice[00:02:34]

I thought that I was dying[00:02:34]

My father would have paid the smart[00:02:34]

And he ran for the golden guinea[00:02:34]

But the sergeant swore he'd kissed the book[00:02:34]

So now they've got young Jimmy[00:02:34]

When Jimmy talks about the wars[00:02:34]

It's worse than death to hear him[00:02:34]

I must go out and hide my tears[00:02:34]

Because I can never bear him[00:02:34]

A brigadier or grenadier[00:02:34]

He says they're sure to make him[00:02:34]

And aye he jibes and cracks his jokes[00:02:34]

And bids me not forsake him[00:02:34]

As I walked o'er the stubble field[00:02:34]

Below it runs the seam[00:02:34]

I thought of Jimmy hewing there[00:02:34]

But it was all a dream[00:02:34]

He hewed the very coals we burn[00:02:34]

And when the fire I'm lighting[00:02:34]

To think the lumps were in his hands[00:02:34]

Would set my heart a-beating[00:02:34]

So break my heart and then it's o'er[00:02:34]

Oh break my heart my dearie[00:02:34]

And I lie in the cold, green ground[00:02:34]

For of single life I'm weary[00:02:34]