Verse
C#m E F#
Through Cropredy in Oxfordshire, the Cherwell takes its course
B E F#
And the willows weep into its waters clear
B E F# B
My name it is Will Tims, it's here that I was born
E F# B
Raised in faith, my King and god to fear
[Verse]
C#m E F#
In sixteen forty-four, the King in Oxford Town did dwell
B E F#
Though we'd heard that Cromwell's army was nearby
B E F# B
It did not occur to me that little Cropredy
E F# B
Could be witness to the meeting of both sides
[Verse]
C#m E F#
On June the 29th that year, I was about my work
B E F#
Cutting hedges in a meadow by the stream
B E F# B
My blade slipped, I cut my hand, my own dear blood did flow
E F# B
Upon the brown earth and the corn still green
[Verse]
C#m E F#
Now it did distress me so to watch my own blood flow
B E F#
And quickly soak into the greedy ground
B E F# B
In red and gold my colours swam and sweat broke on my brow
E F# B
Faint, I knew that I must lay me down
[Chorus]
B F# E F# B
Red and Gold are royal colours
G#m E F#
Peasant colours are green and brown
B E B G#m
Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing
E B F# B
Red and gold when the harvest is cut down
[Verse]
C#m E F#
At first I thought the thundering was just inside my head
B E F#
So I raised myself above the hedge to see
B E F# B
And I watched as in a dream, as the armies fought downstream
E F# B
The Battle for the Bridge at Cropredy
[Verse]
C#m E F#
Now the King's men fought in red and gold, though Cromwell's men were plainer
B E F#
The blood they spilled was coloured just the same
B E F# B
Through the hedgerow's fragile cover, I saw brother killing brother
E F# B
And all of this was done in Jesus' name
[Chorus]
F# E F# B
Red and Gold are royal colours
G#m E F#
Peasant colours are green and brown
B E B G#m
Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing
E B F# B
Red and gold when the harvest is cut down
[Verse]
C#m E F#
All that day and all the next, the battle it was raging
B E F#
Though when darkness came, I slipped away
B E F# B
But the crying of the dying kept me wakeful and just lying
E F# B
In my bed until the dawning of the day
[Bridge]
F# B
And the dreams I had were red and gold
E B F#
And the little stream became a flood
B E B G#m
From all my brothers killing one another
E B F# B
Till waking, I realised, it was all my own dear blood
[Instrumental]
B E F# B G#m E F#
B E B G#m E B F# B
[Verse]
C#m E F#
Some were buried in the church and some just where they fell
B E F#
With no markers to declare their place of rest
B E F# B
But the poppies they do grow where they were never sown
E F# B
And to my mind they do declare it best
[Verse]
C#m E F#
And each year when the green corn once again turns into gold
B E F#
And the poppies in the field again remind me
B E F# B
Like the scar upon my hand and the blood spilled on this land
E F# B
And the hungry earth so eager to confine me
[Chorus]
F# E F# B
For red and gold they are the colours
G#m E F#
One is blood and one is power
B E B G#m
Though I may find my rest in Cropredy church
E B F# B
In golden fields forever, will spring the poppy flower
[Verse]
C#m E F#
By Cropredy the Cherwell is still bidden to keep flowing
B E F#
And the willows by its side still gently weep
B E F# B
But still in restless dreams by this most peaceful stream
E F# B
The poppies wake me from my rightful sleep
[Bridge]
F# B
And the dreams I have are red and gold
E B F#
And the little stream becomes a flood
B E B G#m
From all my brothers killing one another
E B F# B
Till waking, I realise, it's all my own dear blood
[Outro]
B E F# B G#m E F#
B E B G#m E B F# B
B E F# B G#m E F# C
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