The siege was at its height and the well was running dry
The mayor addressed the town, he said, "We'll do it if we try"
And the soldiers on the wall, firing death into the air
Never looking out, for fear of what was there
The children of the town, running ragged through the raid
Seemed that half their lives, they'd been hungry and afraid
But Jenny sat alone, she'd been wondering all the day
She gathered them around and she began to say:
"There's nobody there
Lift your head above the wall
There's no one out there you should fear
There's no one there at all"
Jenny slipped away, through the sleepy midday hour
Silent and at peace, she climbed the highest tower
And as she looked out on the land and the city far below
She shouted to her friends, what she had somehow always known:
"There's nobody there
Lift your head above the wall
There's no one out there you should fear
There's no one there at all"
The captain of the guard, he was a kindly sort of man
Scrambled up the stairs, he pulled Jenny by the hand
He said, "If they see you up there, then surely you will die"
Jenny pointed to the fields and she began to cry:
"There's nobody there
Lift your head above the wall
There's no one out there you should fear
There's no one there at all"
They turned and clambered down, past the drunken sleeping men
A soldier and a child, unnoticed until then
And no one dared refuse, as he shouted the command
They opened up the gates and looked out on the land
"There's nobody there
Lift your head above the wall
There's no one out there you should fear
There's no one there at all"
"There's nobody there
Lift your head above the wall
There's no one out there you should fear
There's no one there at all"
"There's nobody there
Lift your head above the wall
There's no one out there you should fear
There's no one there at all"