John Parfit-Martin Carthy

[ti:John Parfit] [ar:Martin Carthy] [al:Signs Of Life] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.65]John Parfit - Martin Carthy [00:01.35]Written by：Flynn [00:01.70] [00:03.81]Parfit went out one cold dark night [00:07.12]Walking the Yorkshire woods all round [00:10.68] [00:11.34]Thinking to find some game to eat [00:14.61]Along the frosted ground [00:17.23] [00:18.06]He heard the pheasant in the trees [00:21.39]Innocent to the wild owl call [00:25.72]Come the keeper's stealthy tread [00:28.84]His mean heart wrapped in gall [00:31.54] [00:32.57]The Duke of Norfolk's game keeper [00:35.18]Out to the woodland come [00:37.72]Protecting life so it be killed [00:40.98]On a sporting day for fun [00:43.65] [00:44.53]He give chase to John Parfit [00:47.28]All in the lonely copse that night [00:50.75] [00:51.42]Struggling beneath the bare branched trees [00:54.90]In the foxes' silent sight [00:57.19] [00:58.36]A shot was fired and sad to tell [01:01.69]Laid John Parfit on the ground [01:05.73]For a moment's rage and carelessness [01:09.75]Precious blood flowed down [01:12.24] [01:13.16]In the light of dawn [01:15.96]Brown leaves on mossy ground [01:19.72]On a woodland place where death has come [01:23.39]Golden sun shown down [01:26.02] [01:26.58]The game keeper was told go free [01:29.62]For it was said that there was no crime [01:32.94] [01:33.46]That a man was killed and stupidly [01:37.27]Nobody seemed to mind [01:39.55] [01:45.20]The world's a tattered and rusty place [01:48.72]Drowning memories of countless men [01:52.23] [01:53.06]Guardians guard by earthly fence [01:56.44]But who will guard the guardians