Harri Webb (Rampage & Revel) 'Rebecca and her daughters 1842'

HARRI WEBB.

Rampage & Revel

Rebecca and Her Daughters

(1842)

There's a stirring in the hedgerows,

There's a clink of bridle chains,

There's a gathering in the by-ways,

There are hoofbeats in the lanes,

There's a secret army rising

To set the law to right,

Rebecca and her daughters,

Are riding through the night.

Riding, riding,

Riding through the night.

For the tollgates are a burden

On the poor folk of the land,

And the word's gone out in whispers

They shall no longer stand.

There's a people out of patience,

They would rather strike than wait,

Rebecca and her daughters

Are riding to the gate.

Riding, riding

Riding to the gate.

With torches and with axes

She has cleared the country roads,

Proclaiming that the highways

Are free for all men's loads,

And as she smashed the tollgates

On the path to liberty

With Rebecca and her daughters

We'll ride to victory.

We're riding, riding,

Riding till Wales is free.