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peter bellamy - the green fields of england lyrics

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[verse 1]
farewell to our lovers and our kind relations
farewell to the homes we love well
there is never an ending to our tribulations
they’ve d+mned us like sinners to h+ll

[chorus]
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you

[verse 2]
the sweet fetters of love they are wrenching asunder
as they tear us from sweethearts and wives
and on some foreign shore we are sentenced to wander
in exile the rest of our lives

[chorus]
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you

[verse 3]
from devon, from derby, from wiltshire and wales
from norwich, from newark and frome
we are herded together from verminous jails
and like vermin are forced from our homes
[chorus]
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you

[verse 4]
there’s cheats and cut+purses and rogues with no name
there’s swindlers and sheep+stealers bold
there’s poor poaching fellows took nothing but game
and there’s footpads took nothing but gold

[chorus]
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you

[verse 5]
there’s coiners and clippers and ladies of pleasure
there’s dicers and drunkards and wh0res
there’s butchers and bakers who dealt in short measures
and a few who have broken no laws

[chorus]
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you
[verse 6]
there’s some who expected to go to the scaffold
there’s others who thought to go free
but now one and all in the hulks lie a+shackled
and together must plough the salt sea

[chorus]
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you

[verse 7]
there’s some of our number are handsome and hearty
there’s others the voyage will mend
but there’s never a soul of our miserable party
will live to see england again

[chorus]
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you

[verse 8]
so farewell to all judges so kind and forgiving
farewell to your prisons and cells
for though we must leave all that makes life worth living
we are leaving you b+st+rds as well!
[chorus]
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you
here’s adieu
here’s adieu to the green fields of england
now we’re parting from you

- peter bellamy lyrics

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