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