Cold February Lyrics - Incredible String Band

As I beside some winter's fire 

Sat writing words strange and steady 

Amongst my own internal choir 

Came voices to my mind unready 

Of those, who died on either side 

While friends cry o'er their bones unburied 

Go sighing through the north east winds 

These cold days of February 

Some clerk with papers and his pen 

Some banker with his poison pity 

Some captain careless of his men 

These fan the flames that maim the cities 

And bigots in the name of Christ 

By thorny paths obscure and muddy 

Can fear to roam through years of cold 

Bewailing how their hands are bloody 

Whether they were from here or there 

Their race and place I would not be heeding 

The men who caused such bitterness 

If hearts they have let their hearts be bleeding 

Who neither for age nor the young child 

Would turn the shot of the arms they carried 

Go bear the guilt a weary ways 

For the cold days of February