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General Category => New Model Army => Topic started by: Henning on April 14, 2013, 08:41:58 AM
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I tried putting together the lyrics for the demo "New Model Army" which is quite interesting for obvious reasons. It's hard to understand at places due to the demo qualitiy of the track. So there are some gaps there. This is what I understood:
New Model Army
I was less than seventeen
when I left the farm
Marching out with the village men
to join the men at arms
Training pike and musket work
and learned the bible creed
and marched out to meet the king
to end that tyranny
We gonna fight, we gonna die
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My brother fell at Naseby field
when the war was almost won
They buried him in a shallow grave
I cried when it was done
But they told us we were Cromwell's men
and hold our banners high
We were fighting for our liberty
Fighting for our rights
The smoke cleared into the summer sky
that brought rains to the land
The king's folk called his process
and stained his guilted hands
On a hope shining winter's day
we put the man to death
While Cromwell planned his Commonwealth
as England held its breath
We waited in our summer camps
Singing round the fires
Talking of these victories
and the land that was ours
But Cromwell'S generals turned on us
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We got no part in their brave new world
because we owned no land
We gonna fight, we gonna die
Remember what you're fighting for
See the fire in our eyes
We gonna fight, we gonna die
But remember what you're fighting for
don't believe their lies
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cool
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Just take a look at the lyrics and you will find more cool and old of these. (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics):
History (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics/164-history)
I believe (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics/433-i-believe)
Living a Lie (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics/432-living-a-lie)
New Model Army (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics/437-new-model-army)
The Dam (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics/439-the-dam)
Paralysed (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics/438-paralysed)
Fashion (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics/434-fashion)
New Frontiers (http://www.newmodelarmy.org/index.php/the-music/lyrics/436-new-frontier)
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Viv, now that many of us are firmly addicted to it, can the -March in September- lyrics be added to this list, or will we have to wait until,, well, September ?
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Can I second that
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One suspects we'll all have to wait until the album is released :(
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OK, I'll wait :-X, but I am gagging to hear what that March in September is going to sound like as a recording. Can't get it out of mi" ed., the drums, the organ, the haunting vocal and backing vocals. An NMA classic of our current times.
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This seems pretty good to me.....
http://board.newmodelarmy.org/index.php?topic=7245.msg122089#msg122089
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This seems pretty good to me.....
http://board.newmodelarmy.org/index.php?topic=7245.msg122089#msg122089
Thanks NickyG, don't know how I missed that. Still, now after I've read it a couple of times, I can go around the house adding some lyrics to it instead of just humming the tune !!