Subject: Lyr Add: BANKS OF THE NILE (from Young Tradition)
From:
Roberto
Date: 19 Jul 03 - 01:49 PM
I can't understand the third verse in the last stanza in the version of The Banks of the Nile sung by The Young Tradition. Can somebody help me? Thank you. Roberto
Oh hark, the drums are beating and I must haste away
The bugles sweetly sound and I can no longer stay
We are called out to Portsmouth and it's many a weary mile
For to fight the Blacks and Heathens on the Banks of the Nile
Oh Willie, dearest Willie, don't leave me here to mourn
Don't make me curse and rue the day that ever I was born
For parting from you Willie is like parting from me life
Oh, stay at home dear Willie and I will be thee wife
Oh, I'll cut off me yellow hair and go along with you
I'll dress meself in velveteen and go to Egypt too
I'll fight and hold thee banner, love, and fortune it may smile
And we'll gather love and honour on the Banks of the Nile
You waist it is too slender, your features are to fine
Your body it is too weak, me love, to stand a long campaign
The sultry suns of Egypt your precious health may spoil
And the sandy desert places on the Banks of the Nile
Oh cursed, cursed be the day that e'er the wars began
For they've taken out of England full many a fine young man
Our land ................. soil
And they never will return from the Banks of the Nile
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