John Parfit

演唱者:Martin Carthy / Dave Swarbrick

专辑:Signs of Life

    作词 : Flynn James Gerard Essex

    作曲 : Flynn James Gerard Essex

    Parfit went out one cold dark night

    Walking the Yorkshire woods all round

    Thinking to find some game to eat

    Along the frosted ground

    He heard the pheasant in the trees

    Innocent to the wild owl call

    Come the keeper's stealthy tread

    His mean heart wrapped in gall

    The Duke of Norfolk's game keeper

    Out to the woodland come

    Protecting life, so it be killed

    On a sporting day for fun

    He give chase to John Parfit

    All in the lonely copse that night

    Struggling beneath the bare branched trees

    In the foxes' silent sight

    A shot was fired and, sad to tell,

    Laid John Parfit on the ground

    For a moment's rage and carelessness

    Precious blood flowed down

    In the light of dawn

    Brown leaves on mossy ground

    On a woodland place where death has come

    Golden sun shown down

    The game keeper was told go free

    For it was said that there was no crime

    That a man was killed and stupidly

    Nobody seemed to mind

    The world's a tattered and rusty place

    Drowning memories of countless men

    Guardians guard by earthly fence

    But who will guard the guardians?

    作词 : Flynn James Gerard Essex

    作曲 : Flynn James Gerard Essex

    Parfit went out one cold dark night

    Walking the Yorkshire woods all round

    Thinking to find some game to eat

    Along the frosted ground

    He heard the pheasant in the trees

    Innocent to the wild owl call

    Come the keeper's stealthy tread

    His mean heart wrapped in gall

    The Duke of Norfolk's game keeper

    Out to the woodland come

    Protecting life, so it be killed

    On a sporting day for fun

    He give chase to John Parfit

    All in the lonely copse that night

    Struggling beneath the bare branched trees

    In the foxes' silent sight

    A shot was fired and, sad to tell,

    Laid John Parfit on the ground

    For a moment's rage and carelessness

    Precious blood flowed down

    In the light of dawn

    Brown leaves on mossy ground

    On a woodland place where death has come

    Golden sun shown down

    The game keeper was told go free

    For it was said that there was no crime

    That a man was killed and stupidly

    Nobody seemed to mind

    The world's a tattered and rusty place

    Drowning memories of countless men

    Guardians guard by earthly fence

    But who will guard the guardians?

《John Parfit》歌词