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Music And Song - English Folk Song

Cadgwith Anthem

Posted by IONA England folk correspondent, 1st Mar 2006

Come fill up your glasses and let us be merry
For to rob bags of plunder it is our intend

Refrain:

As we roam though the valleys
Where the lilies and the roses
And the beauties of Kashmir lay drooping their heads
Then away, and away, and a-w-a-y
To the caves in yonder mountain
Where the robbers retreat.

2. Hush, hush in the distance there’s footsteps approaching
Stand, stand and deliver it is our watch cry

Refrain

3. Come fill up your glasses and let us be merry
For to rob bags of plunder it is our intent

Refrain

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