The birds are approaching in their thousands appear , now sit down here and let me lend me you’re ear . For the harvest is ripened , and the birds steal it’s grain , for man toils in sorrow , and nothing will he gain .
For His sons and his daughters are starving and the church takes his land , his crops for the kings subjects own nothing , and die in their shame for monistories and land Holy war crusaders who march without debt, for all the kings horses , Power and wealth .
And then came famine and war , Pestilence and plague death and disease , like never before . “;bring out you’re dead ,”: as England’s pleasant lands were stripped of their . Wealth .
O,wreath of the nations where brave men hath trod and carried the cross , for those who have nought . And brought reforms where once slavery was rife , to the families who have children , a home and a wife . And held up banners at factory gates , where machines and smoke brought nothing but death on a Plate .
How tender the years that brings but tears , that brings forth the grain , with the sickle and shear .
For once the grains have been harvested and the birds have all fled , the farmers wife still brings home nothing once her family’s been fed . o