The Ballad of George Collins歌词 歌手Sam Lee-专辑Ground of Its Own (2012 Barclaycard Mercury Prize Edition)-单曲《The Ballad of George Co

[00:06.00]George Collins walked out one May morning [00:16.23]When May was all in bloom [00:24.59]And who should he see but a fair pretty maid [00:34.76]A washing her white marble stone [00:42.83] [00:47.22]She whooped she hollered she called so loud [00:55.11]She waved her lily-white hand [01:00.86]Come hither to me George Collins cried she [01:07.70]For your life it won't last you long [01:13.04]He put his bumboat down by the bank side [01:17.66]Across the river sprung he [01:21.38]He gripped his hands round her middle so small [01:26.99]And he kissed her red ruby lips [01:29.95]Then he rode home to his father's own house [01:34.77]Loudly knocked with the ring [01:38.25]A rise,a rise [01:39.91]My farther he cried [01:43.83]Rise and please let me in [01:46.55]Oh [01:47.60]A rise,a rise dear mother he cried [01:51.18]Rise and make up my bed [01:54.92]A rise, a rise [01:56.53]Dear sister he cried [01:58.45]Get a napkin to tie wound my head [02:01.43]For if i should die tonight [02:05.96]And if I should chance to die tonight [02:05.98]As I suppose I shall [02:09.94]Please bury me neat that white marble stone [02:13.56]That lies in fair Ellender's hall [02:17.49] [02:42.35]Fair Ellender sat all in her hall [02:47.14]Weaving her silks so fine [02:50.84]And who should she see but the finest corpse [02:54.21]That ever her eyes shone on [02:57.24]Fair Ellender called unto her head maid [03:01.73]Whose corpse is this so fine [03:05.61]She made her reply George Collins' corpse [03:09.19]An old true love of mine [03:13.07] [03:18.38]Oh put him down my brave little boys [03:24.38]And open his coffin so wide [03:27.90]That I may kiss his red ruby lips [03:31.48]Ten thousand times they've kissed mine [03:35.21]This news being carried to fair London town [03:38.98]Wrote on London gate [03:42.66]Six pretty maids died all in one night [03:49.96]'Twas all for George Collins' sake [03:59.31]