Rebecca’s Daughters

Beyond the mountains where the land lies green and the crops grow high out in the fields,there are storms on the horizon trouble in store, for the scheming land owners who keep wanting more.

For the roads they lay closed where the toll gates stand and the fat gate keepers holdout their hands.

No man can pay the price that they ask,
so now it has come we must take them to task.

Chorus 1
So come to me daughters be at my command for the time it has come we must fight for our land,but if you are caught and you cry out in pain remember one thing Rebecca’s my name.

We will blacken our faces move only at night,
silent and quick we will keep out of sight,
petticoats and laces, ribbons and bows will be our disguises so no one will know.

As we burn down the toll gates break down the doors of the gate keepers houses we will pay them no more, and as we frustrate the soldiers again and again the women they seek will be welsh fighting men.

Chorus 1

Middle eight

We will fight tooth and nail till the government see’s, the soildiers they send they have work overseas.

When the law is changed and the toll gates are banned, then my brave daughters we can return to our lands.

Now the battle is over and a victory is won,
raise a glass my brave daughters to a job well done, but never forget why we rose up to fight
the soldiers and toll gates that came in the night.

So return to your fields tend to your lands,hang up your dresses, work with your hands.

But never forget the greed within men
for I know one day we will be needed again.

Chorus 2
So be ready brave daughters
to be at my command
when the time again comes
we must fight for our lands
and you scheming land owners
our threat will remain
so remember one thing,
Rebecca’s my name.

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