RISE UP JOCK



As I went out one morning for to take the pleasant air

The birds were singing in the trees and the weather it was fair

I sat for a while to rest my back at the foot of a shady oak

When by there came a band of men with their faces black as smoke



And its rise up jock and sing your song

For the summer is short and the winter long

Let's all join hands and join a chain

Till the leaves of springtime bloom again



Now the first to come in was a soldier with his rifle in his hand

He'd just returned from fighting wars in many's the distant land

And he'd left his regiment sleeping at the foot of a foreign hill

And he's returned to England for to kill or to be killed



And the next to come in was a sailor, he'd just returned from the sea

He'd sailed away for seven long years, till at last he was set free

That evening as the sun went down, he'd anchored by the shore

And he's returned to England for to fight one battle more



In the middle of the forest where the blackbirds sweet did sing

The soldier and the sailor took their place inside a ring

And when the battle started they went at it blow by blow

And when the battle ended, down their backs the blood did flow



Now a chimneysweep and a doctor come a walkin arm in arm

And when they saw the bodies there, they showed no alarm

For the doctor he'd been traveling thru Italy, France, and Spain

And he had in his bag a tiny flask for to ease the ache and pain



He gave a drink to the soldier who rose up from the ground

And he began to sing his song as he passed the bottle round

And the sailor, the same up from the ground, as sure as he was born

And the soldier, the sailor, the doctor, and the sweep, they danced into the

dawn



@ritual @seasonal

recored by John and Tony on Nowell sing We Clear

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