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Lyrics for Recruited Collier by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Recruited Collier | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 138 | | | | Lyrics: | The Recruited Collier
O what's the matter wi' you my lass
And where's your dashing
Jimmy?
O, the soldier boys have ta'en him up
And sent him far, far from me
Last
payday he went off to town
And them red-coated fellows
Enticed him in and made him
drunk
And he's better gone to the gallows.
The very sight of his cockade
It
sets us all a'crying
And me I nearly fainted twice
I thought that I was dying
My
father would have paid the smart
And he ran for the golden guinea
But the sergeant swore
he'd kissed the book
And now they've got young Jimmy.
When Jimmy talks about the
wars
It's worse than death to hear him
I have to go and hide my face
Because I cannot
bear him
A brigadier or grenadier
He says they're bound to make him
But aye he laughs
and cracks his jokes
And bids me not forsake him.
As I walked ower the stubble
fields
Below it runs the seam
I thought of Jimmy hewing there
But it was all a
dream
He hewed the very coals we burn
And when the fire I'm lighting
To think the
coals was in his hands
It sets my heart to beating
So break my heart and then it's
ower
So break my heart my dearie
And lay me in the cold ground
For of single life I'm
weary
@soldier @coal @love
recorded by Dick Gaughan
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