William Tell Lyrics - David Whitfield

Come away, come away with William Tell 

Come away to the land he loved so well 

What a day, what a day when the apple fell 

For Tell and Switzerland 

Come away with Tell to the mountainside 

Look down to the pass where the tyrants ride 

Fit a bolt to your bow and down they go 

For Tell and Switzerland 

We are simple peasant folk 

We will not bear a foreign yoke 

Our freedom song will echo on 

To fight for what is right. 

Hurry on, hurry on there's a dungeon cell 

Hurry on, hurry on there's a noose as well 

But we'll escape from the jaws of hell 

For Tell and Switzerland. 

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We lived our lives, we loved our friends 

We never wanted more 

We had the skill to plough and till 

But not the art of war 

But now the tyrant from the plains 

Steals up to take our lands 

Instead of spades we wield the blade 

Our life is in our hands 

Follow on, follow on at the leader's heel 

With a thrust of a pike and a clash of steel 

Follow on with the fight till the tyrants reel 

For Tell and Switzerland 

Give 'em one for the day they burned the grain 

Give 'em two for the night that Fritz was slain 

Give 'em three, give 'em four and hooray for more 

For Tell and Switzerland 

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The shepherd's crook, the reaping hook 

Has taken on a warlike look 

With blades we've beaten from the plough 

We reap our harvest now. 

Come away, come away with William Tell, 

Come away to the land he loved so well 

Fit a bolt to your bow, and away we go 

For Te-e-e-ell, and Switzerland