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Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes
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Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell
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Fairport Convention - Autopsy
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Fairport Convention - Decameron
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Fairport Convention - Eastern Rain
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Fairport Convention - I'll Keep It With Mine
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Fairport Convention - Percy's Song
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Fairport Convention - Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood
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Fairport Convention - Rosie
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Fairport Convention - She Moves Through the Fair
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Fairport Convention - The Deserter
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Fairport Convention - Time Will Show the Wiser
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Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life
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Fairport Convention - After Halloween
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Fairport Convention - Angel Delight
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Fairport Convention - Banks Of The Sweet Primroses
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Fairport Convention - Big William
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Fairport Convention - Book Song
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Fairport Convention - Bring 'em Down
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Fairport Convention - Cajun Woman
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Fairport Convention - Chelsea Morning
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Fairport Convention - Close The Door Lightly When You Go
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Fairport Convention - Come All Ye
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Fairport Convention - Come All Ye Rolling Minstrels
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Fairport Convention - Crazy Man
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Fairport Convention - Crazy Man Michael
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Fairport Convention - Dawn
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Fairport Convention - Doctor of Physick
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Fairport Convention - Flowers of the Forest
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Fairport Convention - Fotheringay
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Fairport Convention - Genesis Hall
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Fairport Convention - Gone, Gone, Gone
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Fairport Convention - Home Is Where The Heart Is
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Fairport Convention - I Don't Know Where I Stand
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Fairport Convention - I Still Miss Someone
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Fairport Convention - I'm Already There
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Fairport Convention - If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong
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Fairport Convention - If Stomp
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Fairport Convention - Iron Lion
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Fairport Convention - It'll Take a Long Time
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Fairport Convention - It's Alright Ma It's Only Witchcraft
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Fairport Convention - It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft
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Fairport Convention - Jack O'diamonds
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Fairport Convention - Jack O'rion
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Fairport Convention - Jewel In The Crown
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Fairport Convention - John Barleycorn
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Fairport Convention - Lady of Pleasure
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Fairport Convention - Let It Go
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Fairport Convention - London River
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Fairport Convention - Lord Marlborough
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Fairport Convention - Matty Groves
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Fairport Convention - Medley: The Lark In The Morning/rakish Paddy/foxhunter's Jig/toss The Feathers
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Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge
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Fairport Convention - Million Dollar Bash
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Fairport Convention - Mr Lacey
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Fairport Convention - Night Time Girl
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Fairport Convention - No Man's Land
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Fairport Convention - Nottamun Town
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Fairport Convention - Now Be Thankful
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Fairport Convention - One More Chance
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Fairport Convention - One Sure Thing
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Fairport Convention - Part I
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Fairport Convention - Part Ii
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Fairport Convention - Part Iv
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Fairport Convention - Part Ix
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Fairport Convention - Part V
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Fairport Convention - Part Vi
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Fairport Convention - Part Vii
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Fairport Convention - Part Viii
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Fairport Convention - Part X
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Fairport Convention - Part Xi
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Fairport Convention - Pilgrims
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Fairport Convention - Pleasure and Pain
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Fairport Convention - Polly on the Shore
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Fairport Convention - Poor Will And The Jolly Hangman
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Fairport Convention - Possibly Parsons Green
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Fairport Convention - Red And Gold
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Fairport Convention - Reno, Nevada
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Fairport Convention - Restless
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Fairport Convention - Reynard the Fox
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Fairport Convention - Reynardine
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Fairport Convention - Rising for the Moon
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Fairport Convention - Rolling Minstrels
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Fairport Convention - Si Tu Dois Partir
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Fairport Convention - Sickness and Diseases
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Fairport Convention - Sir Patrick Spens
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Fairport Convention - Sir William Gower
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Fairport Convention - Sloth
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Fairport Convention - Solo
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Fairport Convention - Some Sweet Day
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Fairport Convention - Stranger to Himself
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Fairport Convention - Sun Shade
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Fairport Convention - Suzanne
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Fairport Convention - Tale In A Hard Time
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Fairport Convention - Tale In Hard Time
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Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
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Fairport Convention - The Ballad Of Easy Rider
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Fairport Convention - The Bonny Black Hare
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Fairport Convention - The Hexhamshire Lass
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Fairport Convention - The Hiring Fair
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Fairport Convention - The Journeyman's Grace
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Fairport Convention - The Lobster
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Fairport Convention - The Time Is Near
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Fairport Convention - The Widow Of Westmorland's Daughter
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Fairport Convention - Three Drunken Maidens
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Fairport Convention - Throwaway Street Puzzle
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Fairport Convention - To Althea From Prison
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Fairport Convention - Trial Song
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Fairport Convention - Tried So Hard
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Fairport Convention - Walk Awhile
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Fairport Convention - What is True
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Fairport Convention - White Dress
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Fairport Convention - Wizard of the Worldly Game
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Fairport Convention - Ye Mariners All
Red And Gold
Fairport Convention
Peasant colours are green and brown
Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing
Red and gold when the harvest is cut down.
Through Cropredy in Oxfordshire the Cherwell takes its course
And the willows weep into its waters clear
My name it is Will Tims and it's here that I was born
And raised in faith my King and God to fear.
In 1644 the King in Oxford Town did dwell
Though we'd heard that Cromwell's army was nearby
It did not occur to me that little Cropredy
Could be witness to the meeting of both sides
On June the 29th that year I was about my work
Cutting hedges in the meadow by the stream
My blade slipped, I cut my hand and my own dear blood did flow
Upon the brown earth and the corn still green
Now it did distress me so to watch my own blood flow
And quickly soak into the greedy ground
In red and gold my colours swam and sweat broke on my brow
And faint I knew that I must lay me down
At first I thought the thundering was just inside my head
So I raised myself above the hedge to see
And I watched as in a dream as the armies fought downstream
The Battle for the Bridge at Cropredy
Now the King's men fought in red and gold though Cromwell's men were plainer
The blood they spilled was coloured just the same
Through the hedgerow's fragile cover I saw brother killing brother
And all of this was done in Jesus' name
All that day and all the next the battle it was raging
Though when darkness came I slipped away
But the crying of the dying kept me wakeful and just lying
In my bed until the dawning of the day
And the dreams I had were red and gold
And the little stream became a flood
From all my brothers killing one another
Till waking I realised it was all my own dear blood
Some were buried in the church and some just where they fell
With no markers to declare their place of rest
But the poppies they do grow where they were never sown
And to my mind they do declare it best
And each year when the green corn once again turns into gold
And the poppies in the field again remind me
Like the scar upon my hand and the blood spilled on this land
And the hungry earth so eager to confine me
For read and gold they are the colours
One is blood and one is power
Though I may find my rest in Cropredy Church
In golden fields forever will spring the poppy flower
By Cropredy the Cherwell is still bidden to keep flowing
And the willows by its side still gently weep
But still in restless dreams by this most peaceful stream
The poppies wake me from my rightful sleep
And the dreams I have are red and gold
And the little stream becomes a flood
From all my brothers killing one another
Till waking I realise it's all my own dear blood