The Rising of the Star

[Burke McCrory]

This is the version that I have.  It comes from the Songs of Ansteorra -
Patriotic and Otherwise, First Edition put out by Melusine Whitcroft in
1979 while we were still a principality.  While there have been many new
verses added to this song over the years this is the way it was taught to
me in AS 13.  Melusine credits the song to Balthazar of Endor.



          The Rising of the Star
          Tune: The Rising Of The Moon

  	Ah, then tell me folks in Atenveldt
	O' have ye heard it said
 	That the sun upon yer banner 
	Has turned to bloody red?
 	We're comin' from the southlands, 
	Ye don't know who we are.
	We're the Boys from Ansteorra 
	With the rising of the Star! (3X)
	We're the Boys from Ansteorra 
	with the rising of the Star!

	Many a foe has tried us
	On many a bloody field,
	A precious few have killed us, 
	Because we never yield.
	We've got powder for our cannon 
	Grape shot, and boilin' tar.
	We're your friends from Ansteorra 
	With the rising of the star! (3X)

	Now we have Sir Simon, 
	Who's called the Mountaingate.
	That isn't silver acne, 
	He's just dressed out in his plate.
	He's got shields made of iron, 
	A sword made from a spar.
	He's a Prince of Ansteorra 
	By the Rising of the Star.

	The women of Ansteorra 
	They'll make ye lovely wives,
	But check their skirts and bodices, 
	They always carry knives.
	They say that ironmongery
	Their beauty will not mar,
	They'll thrill you or they'll kill you
	By the rising of the Star. (3X)

    
	We're just psychotic killers,
	we like to maim and gunch,
	Don't pack us any basket, 
	We'll just eat their dead for lunch!
	We're brothers of the Normans
	And daughters of the Czar,
 	We're the folks from Ansteorra 
	With the rising of the Star (3X)




     


In Service to the Dream

Sir Burke Kyriell MacDonald



mka. Burke McCrory
burkemc at ionet.net