Over the Hills

 
Here’s forty shillings for your tongue
Oh, won’t you volunteer to come?
To list and fight the foe today
Over the hills and far away

O’er the hills and o’er the main
We’ll seek the false and bring it pain
The king commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away

My duty is to truth today
I’ll work and fight without me pay
But part of me will always stray
Over the hills and far away

O’er the hills and o’er the main
We’ll seek the false and bring it pain
The king commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away

If I should fall to rise no more
As many comrades did before
Then ask them all to sing my song
Over the hills and far away

O’er the hills and o’er the main
We’ll seek the false and bring it pain
The king commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away

Then fall in thoughts behind me skull
With colours blazing like the sun
Along the road to come what may
Over the hills and far away

O’er the hills and o’er the main
We’ll seek the false and bring it pain
The king commands and we obey
Over the hills and far away