DAVID McWILLIAMS SINGING SONGS BY DAVID McWILLIAMS
David McWilliams Singing Songs
By David McWilliams
God and Country
It's just been six weeks now, since I left my home town
When they called out my number, and my turn came round
Now I've a gun in my hand, this land to set free
Told to fight till I'm dead, for god and country
Oh my father he told me, it'll be a proud day
When you fight for your country, in a land far away
He said to make all my foes, bend down on one knee
And come home a hero, for god and my country
To all your dictators, say I've had my fill
One of the commandments, is that you should not kill
And this land isn't mine, it's not hard to see
So how can I be fighting, for god and my country
Let me ask you one question and tell me no lies
Is it worth all this money, for so many to die
Or are you so blind, that you don't want to see
That I'm not really fighting for god and my country
Yes, let me ask you one question and tell me no lies
Is it worth all this money, for so many to die
Or are you so blind, that you don't want to see
That I'm not really fighting for god or my country
Redundancy Blues
Through many a long year my table was full
And among many others I was chosen
To stand in the heat of the factory's hum
While the others outside they stood frozen
Yes my head it was empty, my pockets was full
And my hands and my fingers was itching
And I laughed at the shadows that stood in the cold
While I stood full warm in the kitchen
All my children they laughed as they grew at my feet
And my woman said she loved me dearly
And my vision was blocked by the words from their mouths
So that I couldn't see very clearly
Ah, but one day a man came to my factory
Stood up and said this place is closing
Said I'm sorry my friends, we can't keep you here
For far too much money we're losing
Now the winter is here and my hands they are numb
And for me every door says no entry
There's no turf on the fire, and my heart is so cold
And my belly is always so empty
Now my woman and children have left me alone
And lower and lower I'm sinking
There's no money left for me to take down
To drown all my troubles in drinking
The Silence Is Shattered
From the damned deserted highway, to the stillness of my room
Fading shades of night time, in the fast declining gloom
I wakened by the howling dog, from the place that it is lay
And the hooter hollers calling all of you sinners from your bed.
I gazed down at the street lamp, no longer shining bright
For the dawn has robbed it of is gleam, and stolen all it's light
And the stealthy crawling sunlight, creeps on unsuspecting lives
To waken all their troubles, leave their peacefulness behind.
Suddenly my mind speaks against this enemy
But takes the shutters from my eyes puts this uniform on me
It takes away my freedom, like a falling wingless bird
Then the world shouts out his warning, and the silence it is shattered.
Hiroshima
One morning in June a noise shook the ground
And the people all trembled on their faces lay down
And the sound on the lips, of the world all around
Was the name of Hiroshima
The people lay wrapped in their darkening shroud
The last resting place of a people once proud
And the town that lay under that great mushroom cloud
Was the name of Hiroshima
Now the days passed away and the years they flew by
And those left remaining wished that they too could die
For the people left here are still living lie
In the shame of Hiroshima
So take heed to my words, put your weapons away
Make friends with your foes , let all have their say
Or we have once again, what happened that day
We'll have another Hiroshima
One morning in June, a noise shook the ground
And the people all trembled on their faces laid down
And the sound on the lips, of the world all around
Was the name of Hiroshima
Question Of Identity
My forefathers came, when the land it was open
And built it from nothing, to millions of acres
To live there in freedom, no fears to peruse them
To leave all their troubles, and trials behind them
And they worked , and they slaved, and they better their living
Not chained to the laws, of some other society
Chorus
And yet you try to tell me, that it isn't worth havin'
Try to steal away my name, but my name is my own
And I'm gonna keep it, I'm not a jee jaw in your game.
Oh, your schools and your masters, are trying to tie me
To the rules of your game, and the cold of your highway
In little black boxes, tied tightly with ribbon
Your faces is like faith , behind masks are well hidden
As you strive for the things, that to you may seem golden
And mean something to you, but to me they mean nothing
Chorus
And yet you try to tell me, that it isn't worth havin'
Try to steal away my name, but my name is my own
And I'm gonna keep it, I'm not a jee jaw in your game.
So don't try to change, what you're not understanding
Over me your world, has no jurisdiction
For you can't understand, what you speak of in passin'
So just leave me alone, I don't want know you
I don't want you to show me, where I should go to
For you haven't yet found your own long sought utopia
Chorus
And yet you try to tell me, that it isn't worth havin'
Try to steal away my name, but my name is my own
And I'm gonna keep it, I'm not a jee jaw in your game.
Time Of Trouble
Listen to me is all I ask
To follow you my chosen task
And right now time is fading fast
Into my time of trouble
Into my time of trouble
If I could only take you away
Some other time, some other day
For all my youth, it will decay
Into my time of trouble
Into my time of trouble
If you had only, had me then
There'd be no need, to ask me when
There'd be no need, to pass again
Into my time of trouble
Into my time of trouble
So fare thee well, my darling one
And please remember when I'm gone
My love for you it always shone
All through my time of trouble
All through my time of trouble
Yeah fare thee well, my darling one
And please remember when I'm gone
My love for you it always shone
All through my time of trouble
All through my time of trouble
Echo Of My Heart
Is it the hammer of the rain against my window pane
The whistle of the wind among the trees
That makes fast fading shadows, I can hear again
The echo of my footsteps after me
Don't speak to me of violence part of paradise
Of silver painted ships all made of gold
For the dream of all these things I have to pay the price
Forget the many truths that I have sold.
I remember all the dreams, I used to have of life
Past falling shades of time, that cause to fade
And the tide is fast approaching, like the waters
Remind me of mistakes that I have made.
Is it the hammer of the rain against my window pane
The whistle of the wind among the trees
That makes fast fading shadows, I can hear again
The echo of my footsteps after me
The times are ringing out their tunes and tolling
For the friends that I once knew now slipping past
No longer in positions, as witnesses
Far from this game of life they have been cast
Is it the hammer of the rain against my window pane
The whistle of the wind among the trees
That makes fast fading shadows, I can hear again
The echo of my footsteps after me
In The Early Hours Of The Morning
Oh the sun is gazing down on me
And the day it is a dawning
The sea is washing pebbles o'er the sand
In the early hours of the morning
My eyes are still half closed with sleep
My mind still clouded with dreaming
And the ripple of the wave seems a ghost upon the sea
In the early hours of the morning
The breeze it cast it's spell on me
I can't answer all the things it's asking
And I wonder where it's going to
And where it's coming from
In the early hours of the morning
The mist is dangling darkly o'er the tide
Far out upon the ocean it's hiding
All the secrets of the sea from the crying eyes of men
In the early hours of the morning
I walked to the top of the highest hill
And as I climbed I was thinking
And wondering if you'll be coming back to me.
In the early hours of the morning
I’ll Be Home
I'll be home when summer leaves are green again
I'll be home when winter's long been gone
I'll be home to walk once more with Lorrie
To see again the mountains of my home
It's a long lonely feeling to be lying
In a place where no one knows my name
If I don't get home, to see once more my Lorrie
I think I'll never be a man again.
I'll be home
I'll be home, to hold you once again
I'll be home
As the spring is softly dawning on the meadow
There's just one place on earth I long to be
I can picture all the warm and smiling faces
Round my Lorrie and my mountains by the sea
I'll be home
I'll be home, to hold you once again
I'll be home
As the spring is softly dawning on the meadow
There's just one place on earth I long to be
I can picture all the warm and smiling faces
Round my Lorrie and my mountains by the sea
Leaves That Fall
To catch the wind to bind the sun
Find out where the rainbows run
Those who seek to stand so tall
Are numbered as the leaves that fall
The poet sings his dancing rhyme
Of flitting feet and churches chime
A faint reminder of the past
That stands along through winters blast
The autumn winds so cold they blow
And winter never seems to go
But yet the summer comes again
And breathes upon my window pane
Listen as the night bird cries
How every thing that lives soon dies
There's beauty in her mournful call
There's beauty in the leaves that fall
To catch the wind to bind the sun
Find out where the rainbows run
Those who seek to stand so tall
Are numbered as the leaves that fall
Twilight
When the twilight has come, and stolen the sun from my eyes
The world seems to sleep, as the daylight is swallowed and dies
The land dangles from trees, while a light blowing breeze
Leaves a trace of the morning behind her.
This ghost like illusion, numbs all the nerves in my brain
My heart seems to stop, and wait till it passes again
There's a pain in my fist, as it clutches my breath
And I pray for the clean air of morning.
The waves call out help me, the oceans they don't know where to go
Suck like a sponge, away from the acres they know
And the bright morning sun, his light almost done,
As yet not quite dead, but still dying.
The twilight like me, is something yet nothing at all
It has nowhere to go, nowhere to stand or to fall
It cannot be seen, it's just something between
The before and whatever comes after.
Hey Sally Sally
You used to be here, when I spoke your name
Each time you came, to kill all my fear
Now everything's changed, now you are gone
What did I do wrong, didn't need it to break.
Hey Sally Sally, where have you been?
The rain has stopped falling
And the grass it is green.
What made you so sad, what made you go
I don't seem to know, and I'm feeling so bad
Oh I wish I could see, if we could just talk
Maybe you don't lock, your heart strings to me.
Hey Sally Sally, where have you been?
The rain has stopped falling
And the grass it is green.
Please open your eyes, you know you can't run
From something that's done, and you can't live on lies
Please I won't ask again, come down from that wall
If you don't you might fall, what would you do then.
Hey Sally Sally, where have you been?
The rain has stopped falling
And the grass it is green.
Reaching for the Sun
So long baby, I must be on my way
But I think that maybe, we’ll meet another day
And when we do I’m telling you
I’ll break your heart again
Cause I’m 21 and life’s just begun
And I’m reaching for the Sun
Hey I’m going, my feet they just can’t stand
And it feels girl knowing, that I’m at my own command
The Highway’s free and it’s calling me
And I’ll be a long time gone
Cause I’m 21 and life’s just begun
And I’m reaching for the Sun
I need no reason, to smile along my way
Cause life is so pleasing, be it Autumn be it May
I’m free as air I don’t have a care
and I’ll the reach the sun one day
Cause I’m 21 and life’s just begun
And I’m reaching for the Sun
Sheelo Gone So Long
Sheelo, Sheelo, the sea upon the shore
Whispers to me softly of days I’ll see no more
The mountains, the mountains, so proudly do they stand
How often have I walked there, since last I held your hand
Sheelo, Sheelo, Sheelo gone so long
Sheelo, Sheelo, the things you said to me
And once I gazed upon you no other could I see
A stranger a stranger you never could have been
More precious far than diamonds you still are in my dreams
Sheelo, Sheelo, Sheelo gone so long
Sheelo, Sheelo, you were the sun and stars
You gave to me a rainbow we could have gone so far
Emeralds and rubies, sapphires deep as blue
I’d give them all and more than all, to walk again with you
Sheelo, Sheelo, Sheelo gone so long.
Midnight Sun
Follow the morning sun, it's turning in the sky
It's features are changing every flower
Follow the morning sun, it's turning in the sky
Growing ever stronger by the hour.
The darkness quickly fading
It's handing out a line
Says you only are borrowing my time
I'll be following behind
Just in case you change your mind
And when evening comes
I'll rob you of your sunshine.
Follow the morning sun, it's turning in the sky
It's features are changing every flower
Follow the morning sun, it's turning in the sky
Growing ever stronger by the hour.
To walk beneath the tree tops
With the dew drops in your eyes
Listening to the morning sighs
And the lonesome heart that cries
Of the white gull as he flies
I can't forget the things, I don't wish to remember.
Follow the morning sun, it's turning in the sky
It's features are changing every flower
Follow the morning sun, it's turning in the sky
Growing ever stronger by the hour.
Across the glistening meadows
Over every unseen mile
The green grass seems to smile
Says come join me for a while
And we'll strut along in style
Till you're drunk with all the beauty, I can show you.
Follow the morning sun, it's turning in the sky
It's features are changing every flower
Follow the morning sun, it's turning in the sky
Growing ever stronger by the hour.
Fast fades the morning sunshine
Into the evening rain
It's colour softly wane
To some place that I can't name
But I'll be seeing them again
Yes, I'll see them once again
Upon the morrow.
Pretty Bird
Why do you sing you pretty bird
How can you fly so high
When my true love has left me
And here alone am I.
Pretty bird, pretty bird,
I wish that I were you
Pretty bird, pretty bird,
I'd fly up in the blue.
Oh, hear the piper play his tune
He's playing soft and low
He plays a tune familiar
One that you should know.
Pretty bird, pretty bird,
I wish that I were you
Pretty bird, pretty bird,
I'd fly up in the blue.
There's nothing tasted sweater babe
Since I started loving you
Tomorrow coloured red and gold
Now it's turning blue.
Pretty bird, pretty bird,
I wish that I was you
Pretty bird, pretty bird,
I'd fly up in the blue.
No there's nothing tasted sweater babe
Since I started loving you
Tomorrow coloured red and gold
Now it's turning blue.
Pretty bird, pretty bird,
I wish that I were you
Pretty bird, pretty bird,
I'd fly up in the blue.
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