《Banks Of The Nile》歌词

[00:00:00] Banks Of The Nile - Fotheringay

[00:00:23] Oh hark the drums do beat my love no longer can we stay

[00:00:40] The bugle-horns are sounding clear and we must march away

[00:00:56] We're ordered down to portsmouth and it's many's the weary mile

[00:01:11] To join the british army on the banks of the nile

[00:01:31] Oh willie dearest willie don't leave me here to mourn

[00:01:48] Don't make me curse and rue the day that ever I was born

[00:02:04] For the parting of our love would be like parting with my life

[00:02:19] So stay at home my dearest love and I will be your wife

[00:02:46] Oh my nancy dearest nancy sure that will never do

[00:03:04] The government has ordered and we are bound to go

[00:03:20] The government has ordered and the queen she gives command

[00:03:34] And I am bound on oath my love to serve in a foreign land

[00:03:53] Oh but I'll cut off my yellow hair and I'll go along with you

[00:04:11] I'll dress myself in uniform and I'll see egypt too

[00:04:26] I'll march beneath your banner while fortune it do smile

[00:04:40] And we'll comfort one another on the banks of the nile

[00:05:09] But your waist it is too slender and your fingers they are too small

[00:05:26] And the sultry suns of egypt your rosy cheeks would spoil

[00:05:41] Where the cannons they do rattle when the bullets they do fly

[00:05:56] And the silver trumpets sound so loud to hide the dismal cries

[00:06:15] Oh cursed be those cruel wars that ever they began

[00:06:31] For they have robbed our country of many's the handsome man

[00:06:48] They've robbed us of our sweethearts while their bodies they feed the lions

[00:07:01] On the dry and sandy deserts which are the banks of the nile