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Les Trouv​è​res

from People and Places by Chris Simmance

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Les Trouvères


Oh travellers on the road, where oh where have you been
Oh minstrels of far-off times, what have you seen?
The wind and the weather and the rain, you say
The sun and the snow and the ladies way
The coming together at the end of the day
In the mighty halls and then you went your way

Les Trouvères

And what is the news today, was the battle won or lost
Of the history written down, what is true and what is false
What secrets do you hold, what stories were never told
Were you bought and were you sold
Did you hold your tongue for the sake of gold?

Les Trouvères

Despised by authority and hated by the priest
At the edge of society as a servant at the feast
Tell of the terror and the fighting and hunger
The lands and the people broken assunder
The face of the devil as he came to plunder
And why don’t you sing? I begin to wonder

Les Trouvères

The pope, he told his armies, „take the devil away
Rid me of these heretics and dreamers this day
Spare no woman, spare no child, do everything I say
And when your job is done, you will get your pay“

Oh travellers on the road, always going from door to door
Oh minstrel of these hard hard times always running from the law
It’s the same old story year for year
They’ll push you there and they’ll push you here
The price of freedom is so dear
Your place is this world is like the fool in King Lear

Les Trouvères

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from People and Places, released January 1, 2003

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Julia & Chris Simmance Aix En Provence, France

Dear Music-Friends,
We are happy to tell you, that we are out there again, on the streets of South of France !
Hopefully rather sooner than later we will also add some new recordings on our site here.
Greetings and till then,
Julia and Chris ... more

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