The Stand

Performed by Big Country (Bruce Watson, Tony Butler & Mark Brzezicki) along with Mike Peters and Josh Phillips at the Big Country Convention in Zaandam, Netherlands 14 December 2002. (Lyrics differ slightly from original Alarm versions)

Lyrics & Music: Eddie MacDonald, Mike Peters & David Sharp

Original artist: The Alarm

Come on down
And meet your maker
Come on down
And make the Stand

Oh, I have been out searching
With a black book in my hand
And I’ve looked between
The lines that lie on the pages
That I’ve tread
I met the walking dude, religious
In his worn down cowboy boots
He walked liked no man on earth
I swear he had no name
Swear he had no name

Come on down
And meet your maker
Come on down
And make the Stand
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
We’ll make the Stand

As I crawled beneath the searchlights
Looking through the floorboards of this life
I met Strangelove’s cousin
He bore the marks of time
”Hey! Trashcan, where you going boy
Your eyes are feet apart
Is that the end you’re carrying
Shall I play the funeral march?”
Play the funeral march

Come on down
And meet your maker
Come on down
And make the Stand
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
And we’ll make the Stand

We’ll make the Stand

Come on down
And meet your maker
Come on down
And make the Stand
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
We’ll make the Stand

Come roll out the red carpet
Come bugler sound the horn
For the hero is returning
Gotta welcome him to his home
Don’t say I didn’t warn you
This prophesy is coming true
I can hear Big Country walking
Riding over the hill
Riding over the hill

Come on down
And meet your maker
Come on down
And make the Stand
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
We’ll make the Stand

(Come on down)
And meet your maker
Come on down
And make the Stand
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
And we’ll make the Stand

The Stand

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