2016 Album made with full trad band "Stray Hens". hens Tshirts are also available, as is an eponymous Stray hens Album from 2014.
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Inspired by the singing of Kate Rusby, this is one from the original set list of Mandy Connell and Richard Grace, once performed on Irish Bouzouki
lyrics
Recruited Collier
Intro
| D | G A |
| Bm | G A |
| Bm | G A |
| Bm | G A |
V1
"What's the matter with you, me lass, and where's your dashing Jimmy?"
"Them soldier boys have picked him up and taken him far from me
Last pay-day he went into town and them red-coated fellows,
Enticed him in and made him drunk, and he'd better come to the gallows.
V2
The very sight of his cockade, it sets us all a-cryin',
And me, I nearly fainted twice - I thought that I was dyin'
Me father said he'd pay the smart and he'd run for the Golden Guinea,
But the sergeant swore he'd kissed the book, so now they've got young Jimmy.
Fiddle riff x 2
| Bm | G A |
| Bm | G A |
V3
When Jimmy talks about the wars, it's worse than death to hear him.
I must go out and hide me tears, because I cannot bear him.
A Brigadier or a Grenadier he says they're sure to make him,
So now he jibes and cracks his jokes and bids me not forsake him.
Solo - whole verse - End on riff
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V4 - Guitar only
As I walked o'er yon stubbled field - below where runs the seam,
I think on Jimmy hewing there, but it was all a dream.
He hewed the very coils we burn, so when this fire I'm leetin',
To think the lumps was in his hands - it sets me heart a-beating'. (Fiddle HIGH notes long bows)
V5
So break me heart and then it's o'er, oh break me heart, me dearie,
As I lie in this cold, cold bed, of a single life I'm weary."
Exit on fiddle tune
| Bm | G A |
| Bm | G A |
| D |
credits
from The Confluence,
track released December 2, 2016
Traditional
Arranged by Stray Hens Mandy Connell, Carmen O'Brien, Ryan Tews, Sally Taylor
Recorded by the Stray Hens at Echidna Studios (Christmas Hills, VIC)
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