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