{"id":74,"date":"2016-10-05T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/captain-swing\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:25:00","slug":"captain-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/captain-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nCAPTAIN SWING<\/b> <\/span><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry 1976<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nCHORUS 1..<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLight light your torches bright<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nBurn the hayricks burn<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nLight light your torches bright<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nBurn the hayricks burn<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe landlord is replacing our labour<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWith labour saving machines<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWhilst we’re in a living ditch<\/span><\/div>\n
\nUnder the Speenhamland scheme<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWith high rents and taxes and clergy tithes<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe’re robbed of decent lives.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWages low and the prices so high<\/span><\/div>\n
\nFamilies\u2019 whole might die<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\n(To Chorus..)<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe’ll unite in collective action<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSworn to secrecy<\/span><\/div>\n
\nIf they ask who is this ‘Captain Swing’<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou’ve never heard of him.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe’ll fight fight for the right to eat<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo feed our families<\/span><\/div>\n
\nFight fight for the right to work<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo earn our daily bread.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nChorus 2..<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThrash thrash the threshing machine<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nSmash the threshing machine<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nThrash thrash the threshing machine<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nSmash the threshing machine.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe’ll send send a warning letter<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo the offending gent<\/span><\/div>\n
\n“Revenge for thee is on the wing<\/i>“<\/span><\/div>\n
\nFrom thy determined Swing.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYou can read, read the riot act<\/span><\/div>\n
\nWe’ll riot till we win<\/span><\/div>\n
\nHere come, come the Royal Dragoons<\/span><\/div>\n
\nTo shoot poor Captain Swing<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\n(Chorus 1)<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThough we bravely stood our ground’<\/span><\/div>\n
\nand tried to put our case<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe dragoons they fired their deathly shot<\/span><\/div>\n
\ninto our hungry face.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nShot, shot were valiant men<\/span><\/div>\n
\nFatherless families abound<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd transported to Van Dieman’s land<\/span><\/div>\n
\nYet the Captain is still around<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nChorus 1 & 2<\/span>
\n
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\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nFeatured on my album Songs From the Coventry Underground<\/i>, Gnome Label 2007<\/span><\/div>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
\n
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\nWritten after reading George Rude and Eric Hobsbawm’s book Captain Swing for A level Economic and Social History and reading some early Swing ballads in the college library. I wrote my own version.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\nBroadgate Gnome said of this on the album ” But that’s not the only reason for choosing his work for this release. He is a master craftsman of his artform. His lyrics are carefully honed with the occasional surprise. The working of the words “under the Speenhamland scheme” into the lyric of Captain Swing, written some 20 years before the arrival of Billy Bragg, is phenomenal and deserves a place in the record books.”<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
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\n
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<\/p>\n

Captain Swing – Trev Teasdel<\/a> from Trev Teasdel<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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