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Versuri Epochalypse – The Recruited Collier lyrics

Oh, what’s the matter with you, my lass
And where’s your dashing Jimmy?
The soldier boys have picked 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’d be 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’d run for the golden guinea
But the sergeant swore he’d kissed the book
So now they’ve got young Jimmy

When Jimmy talks about the wars
It’s worse of all to hear him
I must sit down and hide my tears
Because I cannot bear him
A brigadeer or grenadier
They said they would make him
So now he jibes and cracks his jokes
And bids me not forsake him

As I walked out o’er yonder hill
And down among the broom lads (???)
I think on Jimmy in the wars
And vow to seek my true love
He is the lad that I adore
I’ll ne’er forget my dearie
And if I never see him more
I’ll die for my love, Jimmy

Oh, break my heart and then it’s o’er
Oh, break my heart, my dearie
As I lie in this cold, cold bed
A single life grows weary