THE AUCKLAND SHANTY SINGERS Perform All Things Are Quite Silent www.folkroundabout.com

Описание: All Things Are Quite Silent is a woman’s lament for her husband who has been abducted from his bed and press-ganged into the navy. Appalling conditions on board ships of the “King’s Navee” in the 18th and early 19th Centuries meant plenty of work for the men of the press-gangs. After having raised as many recruits as possible by posting patriotic bills in the market towns around the seaport, the captains of the ships of the line would send out press-gangs to search the courts, the streets and the inns. If these methods brought in insufficient numbers they would not stop short of dragging a man from his marriage bed.

Lyrics:
All Things Are Quite Silent Trad Folk - Chorus by TASS © 2023 Chris

All things are quite silent, each mortal at rest
When me and my true love, lay snug in one nest
When a bold set of ruffians, broke into my cave
And forced me my dear jewel, to plough the salt wave.

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All things are quite silent, now I’m stolen away
Abord this King’s vessel, the sea bars my way home
The waves churn and are turning, around high and low
Salt tears fill my eyes, staining memories of you.

I begged hard for my darling, as I would for my life
But they'd not listen too me, although a find life
Saying the King must have sailors, to the seas he must go
And they left me lamenting, in sorrow and woe.

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Through green fields and meadows, we oft times have walked
And fond recollections, together have talked
Where the lark and the blackbird, so sweetly did sing
And the lovely thrushes voices, made the valley to ring.

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Now although I’m forsaken, I won’t be cast down
Who knows but my true love, some day may return
And will make me amends for, my trouble and strife
And me and my true love, might be happy for life.