lirik lagu gillespie - bart wolffe
riding at dawn, riding alone
gillespie left the town behind;
before he turned by the westward road
a horseman crossed him, staggering blind
“the devil’s abroad in false vellore
the devil that stabs by night,” he said
“women and children, rank and file
dying and dead, dying and dead.”
without a word, without a groan
sudden and swift gillespie turned
the blood roared in his ears like fire
like fire the road beneath him burned
he thundered back to arcot gate
he thundered up through arcot town
before he thought a second thought
in the barrack yard he lighted down
“trumpeter, sound for the light dragoons
sound to saddle and spur,” he said;
“he that is ready may ride with me
and he that can may ride ahead.”
fierce and fain, fierce and fain
behind him went the troopers grim
they rode as ride the light dragoons
but never a man could ride with him
their rowels ripped their horses’ sides
their hearts were red with a deeper goad
but ever alone before them all
gillespie rode, gillespie rode
alone he came to false vellore
the walls were lined, the gates were barred;
alone he walked where the bullets bit
and called above to the sergeant’s guard
“sergeant, sergeant, over the gate
where are your officers all?” he said;
heavily came the sergeant’s voice
“there are two living and forty dead.”
“a rope, a rope,” gillespie cried :
they bound their belts to serve his need
there was not a rebel behind the wall
but laid his barrel and drew his bead
there was not a rebel among them all
but pulled his trigger and cursed his aim
for lightly swung and rightly swung
over the gate gillespie came
he dressed the line, he led the charge
they swept the wall like a stream in spate
and roaring over the roar they heard
the galloper guns that burst the gate
fierce and fain, fierce and fain
the troopers rode the reeking flight:
the very stones remember still
the end of them that stab by night
they’ve kept the tale a hundred years
they’ll keep the tale a hundred more:
riding at dawn, riding alone
gillespie came to false vellore
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