Red And Gold (Live)-Fairport Convention

[ti:Red And Gold(Live)] [ar:Fairport Convention] [al:Cropredy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Red And Gold (Live) - Fairport Convention (公平港口大会) [00:00.60]Red and Gold are royal colours [00:05.53]Pleasant colours are green and brown [00:10.14]Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing [00:16.11]Red and gold when the harvest is cut down [00:22.03] [00:24.43]Through Cropredy the in Cherwell Oxfordshire takes it's course [00:29.10]And the willows weep into it's waters clear [00:33.56]My name it is Will Tims and it's here that I was born [00:38.45]Raised in faith my King and God to fear [00:43.18]In 1644 the King in Oxford Town did do well [00:47.84]Though we'd heard that Cromwell's army was nearby [00:52.33]It did not occur to me that little Cropredy [00:56.85]Could be witness to the meeting of both sides [01:02.05]On June the 29th that year I was about my work [01:06.67]Cutting hedges in the meadow by the stream [01:11.11]My blade slipped I cut my hand [01:13.77]And my own dear blood did flow [01:16.44]Upon the brown earth and the corn still green [01:21.09]Now it did distress me so to watch my own blood flow [01:25.88]And quickly soak into the greedy ground [01:30.26]In red and gold my colours swam [01:33.16]And sweat broke on my brow [01:35.49]Faint I knew that I must lay me down [01:41.02]Red and Gold are royal colours [01:45.75]Pleasant colours are green and brown [01:50.67]Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing [01:56.87]Red and gold when the harvest is cut down [02:03.01]First I thought the thundering was just inside my head [02:07.46]So I raised myself above the hedge to see [02:12.10]And I watched as in a dream [02:14.49]As the armies fought downstream [02:17.04]The Battle for the Bridge at Cropredy [02:21.84]Now the King's men fought in red and gold though [02:24.84]Cromwell's men were plainer [02:26.76]The blood they spilled was coloured just the same [02:31.27]Through the hedgerow's fragile cover I saw brother [02:34.79]Killing brother [02:35.39] [02:36.32]And all of this was done in Jesus' name [02:41.25]Red and Gold are royal colours [02:46.54]Pleasant colours are green and brown [02:51.27]Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing [02:57.22]Red and gold when the harvest is cut down [03:03.84]All that day and all the next the battle it was raging [03:08.19]Though when darkness came I slipped away [03:12.85]But the crying of the dying kept me wakeful and just [03:17.03]Lying [03:17.81]In my bed until the dawning of the day [03:22.64]And the dreams I had were red and gold [03:26.89] [03:27.64]And the little stream became a flood [03:32.55]From all my brothers killing one another [03:39.00]Till waking I realised it was all my own dear blood [03:45.99] [04:07.35]Some were buried in the church [04:09.64]And some just where they fell [04:11.76]With no markers to declare their place of rest [04:16.49]But the poppies they do grow [04:19.07]Where they were never sown [04:21.53]To my mind they do declare it best [04:27.01]Each year when the green corn [04:28.86]Once again turns into gold [04:31.24]And the poppies in the field again remind me [04:35.95]Like the scar upon my hand spilled [04:38.95]And the blood on this land [04:41.09]And the hungry earth so eager to confine me [04:46.06]For red and gold they are the colours [04:51.65]One is blood and one is power [04:56.42]Though I may find my rest in Cropredy Church [05:02.11] [05:04.94]In golden fields forever will spring the flowerpoppy [05:14.35]By Cropredy the Cherwell is still bidden to keep flowing [05:19.44]And the willows by side still it's gently weep [05:24.77]But still in restless dreams by this most peaceful stream [05:30.62]The poppies wake me from my rightful sleep [05:34.93] [05:36.14]And the dreams I have are red and gold [05:40.94]And the little stream becomes a flood [05:45.99]From all my brothers killing one another [05:52.35]Till waking I realise it's all my own dear blood