Loot letra

What is this brilliant company
Dressed in silks and satins gay
They are draped in bales of linen
That they found along the way.
They ride in gilded carriages
And they eat off china plates
Finest shawls across their shoulders
Weird and wonderful freight.
There are generals and officers
And every rank of men
They are straggled, and have struggled
On the road back home again.
They are all weighed down with silver,
They have booty rich and fine
They're a motley mix of rabble
How they shimmer, how they shine.

Mostly they have got no rifles
Nor no guns of any sort
But laden with their spoils
By their greed they are caught.
For the Cossacks they have chased them
They have harried them to death
And the frost has bit their fingers
Taking ears and nose and breath.
One hundred thousand are returning
All the men that now remain
They are broken and defeated
By the weary Russian plain.

Ambition drove Napoleon to Moscow
He thought that he would rule the world
But even snow couldn't smother
The noise of such a mighty fall
The sound of great misfortune
Will ring and echo down the years
And bring him immortality
As sure as any great victory.

Maddy Prior - Letras

• A Boy Was Born
• Accapella Stella
• After The Death
• Ali Baba
• All Around My Hat
• Allelujah
• Almost Every Circumstance
• Another Drink
• Autumn: Marigold/Harvest Home
• Baggy Pants
• Bitter Withy
• Blood and Gold / Mohacs
• Bloomers
• Bold Poachers
• Boney
• Boy On a Horse
• Boys Of Bedlam
• Brother Lawrence
• Canals
• Catseyes
• Cold Flame
• Commit The Crime
• Dance On The Wind
• Deep In The Darkest Night
• Deep Water
• Dives And Lazarus
• Each Heart
• Face To Face
• Fanny Blair
• God Squad
• Great Silkie Of Sules Skerry
• Gutter Geese
• Hail The Ball
• Half Listening
• Heart Of Stone
• Hind Horn
• Honest Work
• Hope Lies Now
• I Heard The Banns
• I Sall Goe Until A Hare
• I Shall Run And Run
• I Told You So
• In Fighting
• In The Company Of Ravens
• Jade
• Lark In The Morning
• Long Shadows
• Loot
• Mater Dolorosa
• Morning Girls
• Mother And Child
• Oh No
• Once And Future King
• Pater Noster
• Pity The Poor Night Porter
• Queen And Sovereignty
• Ravenchild
• Reynardine
• Rich Pickings
• Rigs Of The Time
• Rollercoaster
• Rosettes
• Ruled By The Moon
• Saboteur
• Saucy Sailor
• Scent Of Dog
• Scorched Earth
• Sentry
• Sheath And Knife
• Snowdrops
• Somewhere Along the Road
• Sorry The Day I Was Married
• Spring: Snowdrops/Birth
• Summer: Swimming Song
• The Cruel Mother
• The Duke Of Marlborough
• The Fabled Hare
• The Hallows
• The Hare Said
• The Laugh And The Kiss
• The Masts Of Morrigan
• The Mountain
• The Name Of Arthur
• The Rolling English Road
• The Sovereign Prince
• To Have And To Hold
• Tribal Warriors
• Trivial Hymn
• Twankydillo
• Veturae Remembering
• What Had You For Supper?
• Who Am I
• Winter: Long Shadows
• Winter: Red And Green
• Woman In The Wings
• Young Bloods