Fairport Convention - Lord Marlborough Lyrics
You generals all and champions bold that takes delight in fieldsThat knocks down churches and castle walls but now to death must yieldWe must go and face our daring foes and with a sword and shieldI often fought with my merry men but now to death must yieldI am an Englishman by birth, Lord Marlborough is my nameAnd I was brought up in London town, a place of noted fameI was ?beside? by all my men, kings and princes likewiseAnd then all the towns we took to all the world's surpriseKing Charles the Second I did serve to face our foes in FranceAnd at the battle of . . . we boldly did advanceThe sun was down, the earth did quake, so loudly did he cry"Fight on, my boys, for old England's sake, we'll conquer or we'll die"But now we gain for victory and bravely kept the fieldWe took great numbers of prisoners and forced them all to yieldThat very day my horse got shot, 'twas by a musket ballAnd as I mounted up again, my aide-de-camp did fallNow I on a bed of sickness lie, I am resigned to dieYou generals all and champions bold stand true as well as I"Stand true my lads and ?bright? no man but fight with courage bold"I led my men through smoke and fire but never ?slight? with gold
