ANST - Fw: The Ansteorran Line

[Brian and Pam Martin]

Greetings Again,

Good and fellow Ansteorrans, now that we have the lyrics to The Ansteorran
Line, (found below) I urge you one and all to learn it and sing it at your
home events. The tune is that to "Claire's Dragoons". If you don't know it,
please find someone who does. Most of all, I implore Don Alden to travel as
much as he can and teach this song to people. No one can get a group of
people singing around the camp fire any better than Alden, and if we learn
this song now we will make a wonderful entrance onto the field at next Gulf
War. Furthermore, I'm sure that when we do, "Our fair show shall suck away
their souls leaving them but the shales and husks of men. When they see our
army, they shall drop their hearts into the sink of fear, and yield!"*

Pendaran


* You've just got to love Henry V.




> THE ANSTEORRAN LINE
> Alden Pharamond and Benedict Foxwell
> (cheerfully plagiarized from "Claire's Dragoons")
>
> On any Known World battlefield
>    An army finds it's fate is sealed
> And they know that they must die, or yield
>    Before -- the Ansteorran Line
> So let all who face our might today
>    And try to hold our swords at bay
> Be the next to join the dead who lay
>    Along -- the Ansteorran Line
>
> And cry "Vivat!" for the heroes (of) old
>    Cry "Vivat!" for the new ones, too
> And cry "Vivat!" for the Black and Gold
>    And the Star that shines when hearts are true
>
> And whene'er for honor's field, we vie,
> Our Kingdom's banners sweep the sky
> And we know we'll win, or bravely die,
> Within -- the Ansteorran Line
> For never when our spears were set,
> And never when our shield-walls met
> Have our foemen failed to pay the debt,
> Unto -- the Ansteorran Line
>
> CHORUS
>
> And for every fallen friend we must,
> Fulfill for them this warrior's trust
> A dozen foes shall bite the dust,
> Before -- the Ansteorran Line
> So fling your war-flag to the sky,
> "Vivat the Star!" our battle cry
> And fight 'till the blood floats knee-cop high,
> Around -- the Ansteorran Line
>
> CHORUS
>
> Reprise   So on any Known World battlefield,
> An army finds it's fate is sealed
> And they know that they must die, or yield,
> Before -- the Ansteorran Line
> So fling your war-flag to the sky,
> "Vivat the Star" our battle cry
> And fight 'till the blood floats knee-cop high,
> Around -- the Ansteorran Line
>
> And cry "Vivat!" for the heroes (of) old
>    Cry "Vivat!" for the new ones, too
> And cry "Vivat!" for the Black and Gold
>    And the Star that lives ... in me, and you!
>
>
>
>
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