The White Cockade-Kate Rusby

[ti:The White Cockade] [ar:Kate Rusby] [al:Underneath The Stars] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The White Cockade - Kate Rusby [00:09.52]One day as I was walking all o'er yon fields of moss [00:18.58]I had no thoughts of enlisting till some soldiers did me cross [00:27.46]They kindly did invite me to a flowing ball and down [00:35.76]They advanced they advanced me some money [00:48.26]A shilling from the crown [00:52.59] [00:59.34]My true love he is handsome and he wears a white cockade [01:08.22]He is a handsome young man likewise a roving blade [01:16.97]He is a handsome young man he's gone to serve the King [01:25.66]Oh my very oh my very [01:33.72] [01:34.46]Heart is aching all for the love of him [01:43.90]My true love he is handsome and comely for to see [01:53.05]And by a sad misfortune a soldier now is he [02:01.68]I wish the man that's listed him might prosper night nor day [02:09.97]And I wish that and I wish that [02:19.02]The hollanders might sink him in the sea [02:27.09] [02:50.52]Then he took out his hankerchief to wipe my flowing eye [02:59.14]Leave off your lamentations likewise your mournful sighs [03:07.90]Leave off your grief and sorrow until I march o'er yon plain [03:16.39]We'll be married we'll be married [03:25.83]In the springtime when I return again [03:35.46]My true love he is listed and it's all for him I'll rove [03:43.86]I'll write his name on every tree that grows in yonder grove [03:53.11]My poor heart it does hallow how my poor heart it does cry [04:01.35]To remind me to remind me [04:10.35]Of my ploughboy until the day I die