เนื้อเพลง The Recruited Collier
The Recruited Collier - Anne Briggs
Written by:Anne Briggs
Oh what's the matter with you my lass and where's your dashing Jimmy
The soldier boys have picked him up and sent him far far from me
Last pay day he went off to town and them red coated fellows
Enticed him in and made him drunk and he'd be better gone to the gallows
The very sight of his cockade it sets us all a crying
And me I nearly fainted twice I thought that I was dying
My father would have paid the smart and he'd run for the golden guinea
But the sergeant swore he'd kissed the book so now they've got young Jimmy
When Jimmy talks about the wars it's worse than death to hear him
I must go out and hide my tears because I cannot bear him
A brigadeer or grenadier he says they're sure to make him
But aye he gibes and cracks his jokes and begs me not forsake him
As I walked o'er the stubble field below it runs the seam
I thought o' Jimmy hewing there but it was all a dream
He hewed the very coals we burn and when the fire I's leeting
To think the lumps was in his hands it sets my heart a beating
So break my heart and then it's o'er so break my heart my dearie
For I'll lie in the cold green ground for of single life I'm weary
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