{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2509299,"song":"Red And Gold","artist":"Fairport Convention","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11510125-red-and-gold-chords-by-fairport-convention/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2509299?type=chord","rating":4.39836,"votes":6,"content":"[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRed and Gold are royal colours[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPeasant colours are green and brown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGreen is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRed and gold when the harvest is cut down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThrough Cropredy in Oxfordshire, the Cherwell takes its course[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the willows weep into its waters clear[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy name it is Will Tims, it's here that I was born[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRaised in faith, my King and god to fear[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn sixteen forty-four, the King in Oxford Town did dwell[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThough we'd heard that Cromwell's army was nearby[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt did not occur to me that little Cropredy[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCould be witness to the meeting of both sides[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn June the 29th that year, I was about my work[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCutting hedges in a meadow by the stream[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy blade slipped, I cut my hand, my own dear blood did flow[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nUpon the brown earth and the corn still green[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Dm[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow it did distress me so to watch my own blood flow[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd quickly soak into the greedy ground[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn red and gold my colours swam and sweat broke on my brow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFaint, I knew that I must lay me down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRed and Gold are royal colours[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPeasant colours are green and brown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGreen is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRed and gold when the harvest is cut down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Dm[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAt first I thought the thundering was just inside my head[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo I raised myself above the hedge to see[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I watched as in a dream, as the armies fought downstream[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe Battle for the Bridge at Cropredy[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]Dm[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow the King's men fought in red and gold, though Cromwell's men were plainer[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe blood they spilled was coloured just the same[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThrough the hedgerow's fragile cover, I saw brother killing brother[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd all of this was done in Jesus' name[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRed and Gold are royal colours[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPeasant colours are green and brown[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGreen is the corn in the brown earth when it's growing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRed and gold when the harvest is cut down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll that day and all the next, the battle it was raging[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThough when darkness came, I slipped away[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut the crying of the dying kept me wakeful and just lying[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn my bed until the dawning of the day[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the dreams I had were red and gold[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the little stream became a flood[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFrom all my brothers killing one another[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTill waking, I realised, it was all my own dear blood[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSome were buried in the church and some just where they fell[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith no markers to declare their place of rest[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut the poppies they do grow where they were never sown[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd to my mind they do declare it best[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Dm[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd each year when the green corn once again turns into gold[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the poppies in the field again remind me[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLike the scar upon my hand and the blood spilled on this land[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the hungry earth so eager to confine me[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFor red and gold they are the colours[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOne is blood and one is power[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThough I may find my rest in Cropredy church[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn golden fields forever, will spring the poppy flower[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Dm[/ch]                [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy Cropredy the Cherwell is still bidden to keep flowing[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the willows by its side still gently weep[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut still in restless dreams by this most peaceful stream[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe poppies wake me from my rightful sleep[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the dreams I have are red and gold[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the little stream becomes a flood[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFrom all my brothers killing one another[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTill waking, I realise, it's all my own dear blood[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]","plain_text":"[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nC  F  G  C  Am  F  G\nC  F  C  Am    F  C  G  C\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\nC  F  G  C  Am  F  G\nC  F  C  Am    F  C  G  C\nC  F  G  C  Am  F  G  C","chords":["C","G","F","Am","Dm"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}