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Artist/Band: Levellers
Lyrics for Song: The Recruiting Sergeant
Lyrics for Album: Static On The Airwaves [2012]



Over the mountains

And over the sea

By Hercules transporter

To fight the Afghani

With a rifle in my hand

To set the country free

But it's your picture in my pocket

That means everything to me



So I've fixed-up the alarm

And broken half way in

When the security guard appears

And busts me on the chin

He kicks me 'round and says

"Do you know the shit you're in?"

I said "I was on me arse mate"

Meant no offence to him



I was over the mountains

And over the sea

By Hercules transporter

To fight the Afghani

With a rifle in my hand

To set the country free

But it's your picture in my pocket

That means everything to me



I know I let you down babe

Trying to make ends meet

When I met this recruiting seargeant

By the courthouse on the street

He said "You're a disgrace boy

and that's a fucking crime"

Then somebody got the drinks in

And I signed on the dotted line



And I was over the mountains

And over the sea

By Hercules transporter

To fight the Afghani

With a rifle in my hand

To set the country free

But it's your picture in my pocket

That means everything to me



Now I'm sucking dust in Helmand

Dug in to Lashkar Gar

Where the local weed and opium

Beats any British bar

I know as we lay there dreaming

I'm still in the pay of theives

And I'm rushing back to be with you

Upon this desert breeze



It's blowing over the mountains

And over the sea

By Hercules transporter

To fight the Afghani

With a rifle in my hand

To set the country free

But it's your picture in my pocket

That means everything to me



Don't follow me to die boys

In bloody Kandahar

With the eerie glow of tracers

Lighting every wretched scar

Who will say a prayer for me

And cry each year this day?

If you see a recruiting seargeant boys

Run, run away



Run over the mountains

And over the sea

By Hercules transporter

To fight the Afghani

With a rifle in my hand

To set the country free

But it's your picture in my pocket

That means everything to me



And it's over the mountains

And over the sea

By Hercules transporter

To fight the Afghani

With a rifle in my hand

To set the country free

But it's your picture in my pocket

That means everything to me



It's your picture in my pocket

That means everything to me


Album Lyrics: Static On The Airwaves [2012]


Levellers
"Static On The Airwaves [2012]"


1. The Recruiting Sergeant
2. Traveller
3. Truth Is
4. We Are All Gunmen