Elias Alexander and the Bywater Band Bywater

Текст с Bandcamp а: I Wish the Wars Were All Over, by Tim Eriksen (BMI), Words based on the Timothy Connor manuscript republished in A Sailors Songbag: An American Rebel in an English Prison, 177779, by George G. Carey. The Bywater Jigby Elias Alexander This tune was written on a porch in The Bywater in New Orleans. Down by deep water where sweet lindens stand, I saw pretty Polly wringing her hands, The song that she sang made the whole grove to ring, My Billy has left me, to fight for a king, And I wish the wars were all over. I stood in amaze at the words that she said, I ll follow my Billy whether living or dead, The notes that she sang made the whole grove to ring, The lark and the linnet how they warble their throats, And I wish the wars were all over. Away from my parents I ll hasten away, I ll deck myself out in a young man s array, And at every company that I pass by, I ll ask of my billy or where he does lay, And I wish the wars were all over. from Bywater, released July 8, 2016