| Blood and Gold
bass: 'Blood, blood, blood and gold' to bar 11
1. On rides a captain and 300 soldier lads
Out of the morning mist and thro’ the silent snow.
Whistling gaily rides the captain at their head,
Behind him soldier boys sadly weeping go.
Chorus:
O Mother weep for your son, He is gone to kill and die.
2. For when you took my gold and swore to follow me
You sold away your lives and your liberty.
No more you’ll till the soil, no more you’ll work the land,
No more to the dance you’ll go and take girls by the hand.
Ch.
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3. You’ll weep, you’ll die by the keen edge
of the sword,
All alone by the muddy Danube shore.
He gave the order for the drummers to beat their drums
That mothers all might know the life a soldier lives
Ch.
4. Unfurl your ragged banner and raise your pale young face,
You’ll all go in the fire, there’ll be no hiding place
O Mother, hear the drumbeat in the village square
O Mother, that drum’s for me to go a soldier there
Mothers, sisters, wives, weep for us
Marked as Cain we die alone
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