TREACHERY AT THE BLUE ANCHOR

Dixon/Snape

Intro: Am C G Am G Am

Am                        C          G             Am                Em
Rest a while and sup your fill and a tale to you I’ll tell

    Am                      C       G            Am       G          Am               
Of Edmund and his fateful ride from here to Helen’s Well

    C                                                                     Am                           G
Of Gregson Lane’s most famous son and the day his horse went down

             Am                   C          G             Am                      Em   
He was murdered for a point of view that differed from the crown

Chorus

C                                    F                           G   
Ride ride Edmund your captors they draw nigh
         C                                        F

Keep on the track and don’t look back
       C             G       Am         G
For you must never die good man
Am                     D
You must never die

Chorus

Jailed in sixteen twenty two and then released again
Pardoned by his majesty to please the King of Spain
Returned to work with Brindle folk betrayed by so called friends
He was captured o’er by Duxon Hill when his horse refused a fence

Chorus

The Hanging Judge at Lancaster said change your point of view
But Edmund shook his head and said “do what you have to do”
On the twenty eighth of August in Sixteen twenty eight
Edmund died in the name of God outside the city gates

The song can be hear here Treachery at The Blue Anchor

The song is about St Edmund Arrowsmith – one of The Lancashire Martyrs (AKA Bryan Arrowsmith) I believe he was a relative of my wife Bernadette

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