White Cockade
Kate Rusby
[Intro] e|--------------------------|----------15---------| B|--12h13-13-13-13-13-13-13-|-12h13-13------------| G|--------------------------|-------------12------| A|--------------------------|---------------------| 2x |--------------------------|--------------------- [Verse 1] One day as I was walking all o’er yon fields of moss I had no thoughts of enlisting till some soldiers did me cross They kindly did invite me to a flowing ball and down They advanced they advanced me some money a shilling from the crown. [Verse 2] My true love he is listed and he wears a white cockade He is a handsome young man likewise a roving blade He is a handsome young man he’s gone to serve the King Oh my very oh my very heart is aching all for the love of him [Verse 3] My true love he is handsome and comely for to see And by a sad misfortune a soldier now is he I wish the man that’s listed him might prosper night nor day And I wish that and I wish that the Hollanders might sink him in the sea [Verse 4] Then he took out his hankerchief to wipe my flowing eye Leave off your lamentations likewise your mournful sighs Leave off your grief and sorrow until I march o’er yon plain We’ll be married we’ll be married in the springtime when I return again [Verse 5] My true love he is handsome and it’s all for him I’ll rove I’ll write his name on every tree that grows in yonder grove My poor heart it does hallow how my poor heart it does cry To remind me to remind me of my ploughboy until the day I die