Red Fox - Big Country

Coming out into the day and all that I can see

Is the red and white of the King’s army

I’ll meet with them among the pine

I’ll meet with them by noon

The dirge will sound on the morrow’s noon

I was not born into this time

To cleave the soil or work the mine

I came to claim my enemy

And be the fox’s destiny

I follow on in silence with a quiet heart in fear

I will be done before the dawn if I’m found here

I stand up as he passes and the time has come at last

The prey goes down at the metals crash

I was not born into this time

To cleave the soil or work the mine

I came to claim my enemy

And be the fox’s destiny

Kidnapped in the dead of night

I did no wrong, I will not fight

It was not me, I will not run

But I believe in what was done

John, John, there’s something wrong

The guns are found and the fox is gone

John, John, before too long

It will be me they hang it on

So send me off to the colony shore

Or send me where I’ll laugh no more

I will tell none of what I know

Let the hunter walk where need must go

John, John, there’s something wrong

The guns are found and the fox is gone

John, John, before too long

It will be me they hang it on

I will tell none of what I know

Let the hunter walk where need must go

John, John, before too long

It will be me they hang this on