歌词
Oh hark! the drums do beat, my love, no longer can we stay.
The bugle-horns are sounding clear, and we must march away.
We're ordered down to Portsmouth, and it's many is the weary mile.
To join the British Army on the banks of the Nile.
Oh Willie, dearest Willie, don't leave me here to mourn,
Don't make me curse and rue the day that ever I was born.
For the parting of our love would be like parting with my life.
So stay at home, my dearest love, and I will be your wife.
Oh my Nancy, dearest Nancy, sure that will never do.
The government has ordered, and we are bound to go.
The government has ordered, and the Queen she gives command.
And I am bound on oath, my love, to serve in a foreign land.
Oh, but I'll cut off my yellow hair, and I'll go along with you.
I'll dress myself in uniform, and I'll see Egypt too.
I'll march beneath your banner while fortune it do smile,
And we'll comfort one another on the banks of the Nile.
But your waist it is too slender, and your fingers they are too small.
In the sultry suns of Egypt your rosy cheeks would spoil.
Where the cannons they do rattle, when the bullets they do fly,
And the silver trumpets sound so loud to hide the dismal cries.
Oh, cursed be those cruel wars, that ever they began,
For they have robbed our country of manys the handsome men.
They've robbed us of our sweethearts while their bodies they feed the lions,
On the dry and sandy deserts which are the banks of the Nile.
专辑信息
1.Farewell, Farewell
2.The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
3.Friends
4.The Ballad Of Easy Rider
5.Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
6.Listen, Listen
7.No More Sad Refrains
8.Fotheringay
9.Crazy Man Michael
10.Nothing More
11.The Sea
12.The Pond And The Stream
13.Banks Of The Nile
14.Late November
15.John The Gun
16.Next Time Around
17.When Will I Be Loved
18.Learning The Game
19.Here In Silence
20.Man Of Iron
21.It'll Take A Long Time
22.Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood
23.The Lady
24.It Suits Me Well
25.Solo
26.Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
27.Carnival
28.No End
29.Stranger To Himself (Demo Version)
30.One More Chance (Demo Version)
31.For Shame Of Doing Wrong (I Wish I Was A Fool For You Again)
32.One Way Donkey Ride
33.I'm A Dreamer
34.All Our Days