Kate Rusby – Recruited Collier (Ukulele)

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"What's the matter with you, me lass, and where's your dashing Jimmy?"

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"Them soldier boys have picked him up and taken him far from me.

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Last pay-day he went into town and them redcoated fellows,

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Enticed him in and made him drunk, and he'd better gone to the gallows.

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The very sight of his cockade, it sets us all a-cryin,

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And me, I nearly fainted twice - I thought that I was dyin'.

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Me father said he'd pay the smart and he'd run for the Golden Guinea,

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But sergeant swore he'd kissed the book, so now they've got young Jimmy.

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When Jimmy talks about the wars, it's worse than death to hear him.

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I must go out and hide me tears, because I cannot bear him.

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A Brigadier or a Grenadier he says they're sure to make him,

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So now he jibes and cracks his jokes and bids me not forsake him.

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As I walked o'er yon stubbled field - below where runs the seam,

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I think on Jimmy hewing there, but it was all a dream.

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He hewed the very coils we burn, so when this fire I'm leetin',

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To think the lumps was in his hands - it sets me heart a-beating'

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So break me heart and then it's o'er, oh break me heart, me dearie,

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As I lie in this cold, cold bed, of a single life I'm weary