Name: White Cockade
Duration: P00H02M39S
Description: A cockade is a knot of ribbons, usually worn on a hat, which when of particular colours could serve to distinguish a man as a soldier. This popular folk song has been performed by Kate Rusby, Bob Copper and the The Watersons, among others. Sometimes the cockade is blue, but the story does not appear to vary much between versions. I learnt it at Forest School Camps.

White Cockade

from Of Love and War by Roary Skaista

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A cockade is a knot of ribbons, usually worn on a hat, which when of particular colours could serve to distinguish a man as a soldier. This popular folk song has been performed by Kate Rusby, Bob Copper and the The Watersons, among others. Sometimes the cockade is blue, but the story does not appear to vary much between versions. I learnt it at Forest School Camps.

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It's true, my love's enlisted and he wears the white cockade.
He is a handsome young man, likewise a roving blade.
He is a handsome young man, most right to serve a king.
Oh my very, oh my very heart is breaking all for the loss of him.

As I roved out one morning, as I wandered o'er yon moss,
I had no thoughts of 'listing 'till a soldier did me cross.
He kindly did invite me to take a flowing bowl.
He advanced, he advanced me the money, two guineas and a crown.

My love is tall and handsome and comely for to see,
But by a sad misfortune a soldier now is he.
May the man that first enlisted him not prosper night and day.
How I wish that, how I wish that he may perish all in the foaming spray.

And may he never prosper and may he never thrive
At all he puts his hands upon as long as he's alive.
May the very ground he treads upon the grass refuse to grow
Since he has been the, since he has been the only cause of my sorrow grief and woe.

Then he's taken out the handkerchief to wipe the flowing eye.
Wipe up, wipe up them flowing tears, likewise those mournful sighs.
And be you of good courage love, 'till I return again.
You and I, love, you and I, love, will be married when I return again.

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from Of Love and War, released August 1, 2016
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Roary Skaista is a queer folk musician based in Oxford, performing traditional folk songs as well as their own material on the themes of love, nature and diversity.

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