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    "Hastings 1066"genre: Folk
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    Song about the Battle of Hastings as told from the side of the Normans.
    CD: Prodigal Bard   Label: Raven Boy Music
    Credits: Thomas Bordeaux

    Lyrics
    We sailed our way 'cross the treacherous channel
    To confront the usurper with promises old
    To take England's crown or to die in the battle
    That the Duke should be King as King Edward
    foretold

    Twelve hours in ships as the wind blew us onward
    To the white cliffs of Dover, and then to the shore
    We saddled our horses and struck out for Hastings
    Where the priests told us that there was land we could
    hold

    chorus:
    So ride, ride, good knights of Normandy
    Ready your weapons and pennants so bold
    Carry the Pope's banner onward before you
    And England will fall before the winter turns cold

    At Hastings we waited for Harold in battle
    And sent him a message, his downfall foretold
    Duke William has sworn he will hear your
    death-rattle
    And take all of England to have and to hold

    Now just two weeks before at a bridge up in Stamford
    King Harold had sent his own brother below
    But now he faced William's knights armored for
    battle
    And fought us as though he were shod all in stone

    chorus

    King Harold was dead and his army was shattered
    As we marched out of Hastings for old London Town
    We circled that city for two weeks unceasing
    Then marched into London to see William crowned

    But we've word from the North the resistance is
    forming
    With traitors and rebels to Duke William's crown
    We'll ride down upon them and cut them back
    quickly
    And return here to London 'fore the snow hits the
    ground

    chorus

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