Blood And Gold-Maddy Prior

[ti:Blood And Gold] [ar:Maddy Prior] [al:Ballads And Candles] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Blood And Gold - Maddy Prior [00:00.20]Written by：Maddy Prior [00:00.62]On rides a captain and 300 soldier lads [00:05.41] [00:06.15]Out of the morning mist and thro' the silent snow [00:10.40] [00:11.02]Whistling gaily rides the captain at their head [00:15.44] [00:16.03]Behind him soldier boys sadly weeping go [00:21.55] [00:22.44]For when you took my gold and swore to follow me [00:27.01] [00:27.77]You sold away your lives and your liberty [00:32.36] [00:33.06]No more you'll till the soil no more you'll work the land [00:37.61] [00:38.24]No more to the dance you'll go and take girls by the hand [00:43.55] [00:44.39]O mother weep for your son [00:53.69] [00:54.28]He is gone to kill and die [01:01.88] [01:03.05]You'll weep you'll die by the keen edge of the sword [01:07.60] [01:08.35]All alone by the muddy Dinubh shore [01:12.74] [01:13.54]He gave the order for the drummers to beat their drum [01:17.86] [01:18.71]The smothers of my clothes the live a soldier lives [01:23.56] [01:24.72]Unfurl your ragged banners and brace your pale young face [01:29.17] [01:29.73]You'll all going the fire there'll be no hiding place [01:34.24] [01:35.11]O mother hear the drumbeat in the village square [01:39.46] [01:40.20]O mother that drums for me to go for a soldier there [01:45.64] [01:46.51]Mothers sisters wives weep for us [01:56.15] [01:56.90]Marked as Cain we lie alone