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