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