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The Recruited Collier [Bonus Track]

from Timeless Street [Bonus Track Edition] by The Whisky Priests

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THE RECRUITED COLLIER

What's the matter with you my lass
And where's your dashing Jimmy
The soldier boys have picked him up
And sent him far from me
Last payday he went off to town
And them red-coated fellows
Enticed him in and made him drunk
He would have better gone to the gallows

The very sight of his cockade
Sets me all a-crying
And me I nearly fainted twice
I thought that I was dying
My father he would have paid the smart
And he ran for the golden guinea
But the sergeant swore he'd kissed the book
So now they've got young Jimmy

When Jimmy talks about the war
It's worse than death to hear him
I have to run and hide my tears
Because I can never bear him
A brigadier or grenadier
He says they're going to make him
But aye he jibes and cracks his jokes
And bids me not forsake him

As I walked over the stubble field
Below it runs the seam
I thought of Jimmy standing there
But it was all a dream
He hewed the very coals we burn
And when the fire I'm lighting
To think the coals were in his hands
Sets my heart a-beating

So break my heart and then it's over
So break my heart my dearie
And lay me in the cold cold ground
For of single life I'm weary

(Trad. arr. The Whisky Priests)

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from Timeless Street [Bonus Track Edition], released October 3, 1994
Gary Miller - vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin
Glenn Miller - accordion
Mick Tyas - bass
Kevin Wilson - mandolin
Simon Chantler - fiddle
Piers Burgoyne - drums
Paul Carless - harmonica

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Gary Miller first rose to international prominence with folk-punk/rock pioneers The Whisky Priests (1985-2002), founded with his twin brother Glenn - “the Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of Folk Music". He now performs as a solo artist and with his new band 'Gary Miller's Big Picture' whose debut album is coming soon. ... more

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