Rev Hammer Lilburne's Death Song
Been in Tower, been in Newgate,
Been in Fleet, been in exile,
Been in love with you daily,
Been impatient for change.
Again and again I've been
The one to do the leaving
But now I'm asking of you Lizzy
Don't be leaving me tonight.
Where freedom's flower sat high above
Now crushed beneath the iron glove
Where fire raged within me
Sits the dying of the light.
And as time and success have changed
The honest shape of many man
My time has come for Liberty
From the last of my jails.
Chorus:
Is it the rattle of chains I hear
Or the old death rattle?
Will we fall away together
As I slip away tonight?
