Red And Gold chords by Fairport Convention

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Chorus:
C majorC    G+G    FF   G+G    C majorC
Red and Gold are royal colours
    A minorAm     FF     G+G
Peasant colours are green and brown
C majorC      FF      C majorC           A minorAm
Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing
FF    C majorC       G+G       C majorC
Red and gold when the harvest is cut down

Verse:
          DmDm        FF         G+G
Through Cropredy in Oxfordshire, the Cherwell takes its course
    C majorC       FF       G+G
And the willows weep into its waters clear
  C majorC        FF     G+G        C majorC
My name it is Will Tims, it's here that I was born
FF          G+G        C majorC
Raised in faith, my King and god to fear

Verse:
         DmDm        FF        G+G
In sixteen forty-four, the King in Oxford Town did dwell
      C majorC           FF      G+G
Though we'd heard that Cromwell's army was nearby
    C majorC      FF    G+G      C majorC
It did not occur to me that little Cropredy
     FF       G+G        C majorC
Could be witness to the meeting of both sides

Verse:
       DmDm        FF      G+G
On June the 29th that year, I was about my work
    C majorC      FF       G+G
Cutting hedges in a meadow by the stream
     C majorC         FF    G+G         C majorC
My blade slipped, I cut my hand, my own dear blood did flow
 FF         G+G          C majorC
Upon the brown earth and the corn still green

Verse:
            DmDm  FF         G+G
Now it did distress me so to watch my own blood flow
  C majorC       FF       G+G
And quickly soak into the greedy ground
      C majorC        FF    G+G         C majorC
In red and gold my colours swam and sweat broke on my brow
FF         G+G       C majorC
Faint, I knew that I must lay me down

Chorus:
C majorC    G+G    FF   G+G    C majorC
Red and Gold are royal colours
    A minorAm     FF     G+G
Peasant colours are green and brown
C majorC      FF      C majorC           A minorAm
Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing
FF    C majorC       G+G       C majorC
Red and gold when the harvest is cut down

Verse:
            DmDm       FF       G+G
At first I thought the thundering was just inside my head
   C majorC       FF         G+G
So I raised myself above the hedge to see
   C majorC        FF       G+G         C majorC
And I watched as in a dream, as the armies fought downstream
  FF       G+G        C majorC
The Battle for the Bridge at Cropredy

Verse:
               DmDm          FF          G+G
Now the King's men fought in red and gold, though Cromwell's men were plainer
  C majorC           FF         G+G
The blood they spilled was coloured just the same
      C majorC         FF      G+G        C majorC
Through the hedgerow's fragile cover, I saw brother killing brother
  FF        G+G       C majorC
And all of this was done in Jesus' name

Chorus:
    G+G    FF   G+G    C majorC
Red and Gold are royal colours
    A minorAm     FF     G+G
Peasant colours are green and brown
C majorC      FF      C majorC           A minorAm
Green is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing
FF    C majorC       G+G       C majorC
Red and gold when the harvest is cut down

Verse:
         DmDm        FF       G+G
All that day and all the next, the battle it was raging
      C majorC       FF      G+G
Though when darkness came, I slipped away
    C majorC       FF       G+G        C majorC
But the crying of the dying kept me wakeful and just lying
   FF       G+G       C majorC
In my bed until the dawning of the day

Bridge:
    G+G             C majorC
And the dreams I had were red and gold
    FF   C majorC        G+G
And the little stream became a flood
   C majorC   FF    C majorC      A minorAm
From all my brothers killing one another
   FF     C majorC        G+G        C majorC
Till waking, I realised, it was all my own dear blood

Instrumental:
C majorC FF G+G C majorC A minorAm FF G+G
C majorC FF C majorC A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G C majorC

Verse:
         DmDm        FF          G+G
Some were buried in the church and some just where they fell
    C majorC      FF          G+G
With no markers to declare their place of rest
    C majorC        FF     G+G        C majorC
But the poppies they do grow where they were never sown
  FF        G+G       C majorC
And to my mind they do declare it best

Verse:
            DmDm        FF        G+G
And each year when the green corn once again turns into gold
    C majorC       FF       G+G
And the poppies in the field again remind me
     C majorC      FF      G+G           C majorC
Like the scar upon my hand and the blood spilled on this land
    FF        G+G      C majorC
And the hungry earth so eager to confine me

Chorus:
      G+G     FF    G+G    C majorC
For red and gold they are the colours
    A minorAm    FF   G+G
One is blood and one is power
    C majorC       FF    C majorC    A minorAm
Though I may find my rest in Cropredy church
  FF        C majorC     G+G        C majorC
In golden fields forever, will spring the poppy flower

Verse:
        DmDm        FF       G+G
By Cropredy the Cherwell is still bidden to keep flowing
    C majorC       FF         G+G
And the willows by its side still gently weep
  C majorC         FF     G+G         C majorC
But still in restless dreams by this most peaceful stream
  FF        G+G        C majorC
The poppies wake me from my rightful sleep

Bridge:
    G+G             C majorC
And the dreams I have are red and gold
    FF   C majorC        G+G
And the little stream becomes a flood
   C majorC   FF    C majorC      A minorAm
From all my brothers killing one another
   FF     C majorC       G+G        C majorC
Till waking, I realise, it's all my own dear blood

Outro:
C majorC FF G+G C majorC A minorAm FF G+G
C majorC FF C majorC A minorAm  FF C majorC G+G C majorC
C FF G+G C majorC A minorAm FF G+G C majorC