Milly’s Faith
Music: Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869) · Words: Charlotte Alington Pye (1830–1869)
Our village was sad when the soldiers came,
But we hadn’t the heart our lads to blame,
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The words
Our village was sad when the soldiers came,
But we hadn’t the heart our lads to blame,
For what with the drums and the ribbons gay,
The soldiers flatter’d their hearts away.
Although the neighbours bitterly cried,
And many a heart was sad beside,
But mine methought was the saddest of all,
As I watch’d them away at the even fall;
Tho’ I laugh’d and I told them to let me be,
For I know that our Mark will be true to me;
Tho’ I laugh’d and I told them to let me be,
For I know that our Mark will be true to me.
To fight in the battles it was too bad They
should come for a harmless village lad,
To take him away from his friends and home,
And carry him o’er the salt sea foam.
Oh! would those drums had never come near,
For Mark was happy and peaceful here;
Content to follow his father’s plough.
Oh! I wish in my heart he was after it now;
Tho’ I laugh and I tell them to let me be,
For I know that our Mark will be true to me;
Tho’ I laugh and I tell them to let me be,
For I know that our Mark will be true to me.
But summer has gone, and a year has flown,
Since we follow’d their marching o’er the
down, And wherever they went is a puzzle to
me, But I know that it’s somewhere across the
sea. And Mark went marching off with the rest,
And held up his head as well as the best;
And if the battles be won, I know It is all
thro’ persuading our Mark to go.
So I laugh and I tell them to let me be,
For I know that our Mark will be true to me;
So I laugh and I tell them to let me be,
For I know that our Mark will be true to me.
About this song
- Music
- Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869) (dates as OpenScore states them)
- Words
- Charlotte Alington Pye (1830–1869) (dates as LiederNet Archive states them)
- Language
- English, as its source states it
- First published
- in or before 1863, as IMSLP states it
- Length
- 2:27
- The score
- OpenScore Lieder Corpus; CC0 1.0, as its source states it. OpenScore Lieder Corpus (CC0)
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