《The Recruited Collier》歌词

[00:02:34] 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