Blood and Gold (The Romanian Song) Andy Irvine / Jane Cassidy
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- A happy little ditty about the horrors of conscription and realities of war.
- Arrangement after the Silly sisters.
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- On rides a captain and 300 soldier lads
- Out of the morning mist and through the silent snow
- Whistling gaily rides the captain at their head
- Behind him soldier boys sadly weeping go
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- When you took my gold and swore to follow me
- You sold away your lives and your liberty
- No more you'll till the soil, no more you'll work the land
- No more to the dance you'll go and take girls by the hand
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- O, Mother weep for your son
- He is gone to kill and die
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- You'll weep, you'll die by the keen edge of the sword
- All alone by the muddy Danube shore
- He gave the order for the drummers to beat their drums
- That mothers all might know the life a soldier lives
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- Unfurl your ragged banners and raise your fey young face
- You'll all go in the fire, there'll be no hiding place
- O, Mother hear the drum beat in the village square
- O, Mother the drum’s for me to go for a soldier there
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- Mothers, sisters, wives, weep for us
- Marked as Cain we lie alone
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