Banks Of The Nile-Sandy Denny

[ti:Banks Of The Nile] [ar:Sandy Denny] [al:The Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Banks Of The Nile - Sandy Denny [00:23.24]Oh hark the drums do beat [00:29.96]My love no longer can we stay [00:37.81] [00:40.34]The bugle-horns are sounding clear [00:46.90] [00:47.63]And we must march away [00:53.86] [00:56.35]Were ordered down to portsmouth [01:01.99] [01:03.32]And it's many is the weary mile [01:09.33] [01:11.99]To join the british army [01:18.62] [01:20.22]On the banks of the nile [01:25.71] [01:32.03]Oh willie dearest willie [01:38.03] [01:41.31]Don't leave me here to mourn [01:45.97] [01:48.57]Don't make me curse and rue [01:52.38]The day that ever I was born [02:03.21] [02:04.86]For the parting of our love [02:08.42]Would be like parting with my life [02:17.29] [02:19.89]So stay at home my dearest love [02:26.97] [02:28.34]And I will be your wife [02:35.21] [02:46.85]Oh my nancy dearest nancy [02:53.61] [02:57.03]Sure that will never do [03:01.82] [03:04.50]The government has ordered [03:10.32] [03:11.44]And we are bound to go [03:18.95] [03:20.21]The government has ordered [03:25.94] [03:27.67]And the queen she gives command [03:33.33] [03:34.35]And I am bound on oath my love [03:43.04] [03:44.33]To serve in a foreign land [03:49.60] [03:54.21]Oh but I'll cut off my yellow hair [04:03.13] [04:03.97]And I'll go along with you [04:09.51] [04:11.51]I'll dress myself in uniform [04:18.42] [04:19.03]And I'll see egypt too [04:25.98] [04:26.84]I'll march beneath your banner [04:32.81] [04:34.11]While fortune it do smile [04:39.80] [04:40.97]And well comfort one another [04:49.75] [04:51.10]On the banks of the nile [04:57.05] [05:09.56]But your waist it is too slender [05:18.09] [05:19.23]And your fingers they are too small [05:23.90] [05:26.51]In the sultry suns of egypt your [05:33.68]Rosy cheeks would spoil [05:40.28] [05:41.64]Where the cannons they do rattle [05:46.78] [05:49.30]When the bullets they do fly [05:56.27] [05:56.96]And the silver trumpets sound [06:02.64]So loud to hide the dismal cries [06:11.03] [06:16.03]Oh cursed be those cruel wars [06:23.00] [06:24.98]That ever they began [06:30.20] [06:32.36]For they have robbed our country [06:37.76] [06:39.61]Of manys the handsome men [06:46.75] [06:48.27]They've robbed us of our sweethearts [06:53.73] [06:55.22]While their bodies they feed the lions [06:59.79] [07:01.58]On the dry and sandy deserts which [07:11.67]Are the banks of the nile