[Ansteorra] FW: [Mid] A song for General Sir Pellinore

[jwtopp at peoplepc.com]

I had to share it is so good, you need to see the video from the Mid spring
2010 coronation to really get it.  The last no. 8 video from Renegade
Paladin on You Tube.

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On Behalf Of Mark Cipra
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:48 AM
To: sca-middle at midrealm.org
Subject: [Mid] A song for General Sir Pellinore

Apologies to the General for the invented biography
After Gilbert and Sullivan's "When I Was a Lad"


	When I was a lad I watched Errol Flynn
	As he picked the Sheriff's pockets with a merry grin.
	So I stole from the rich and I gave to the broke,
	And I hid in Sherwood Forest in a leaf-green cloak.
		I fought King John so assiduouslee
		That now I am the Ruler of the Mid's Navee!
			CHORUS. - He fought, etc.

	My dreams of Robin and his men gave birth
	To a hank'ring for the hobbits of the Middle Earth.
	I trudged through the mountains and dispatched the Orc
	And wore a pleather jerkin and a plastic torc.
		I stood my ground and I'd never flee,
		So now I am the Ruler of the Mid's Navee!
			CHORUS. - He stood, etc.

	When at 15 years I got a game console
	I discovered World of Warcraft and I played Darkfall;
	I ran up massive phone bills and my avatar
	Had a broadsword and a warboard and morningstar.
		That morningstar did I swing so free,
		That now I am the Ruler of the Mid's Navee!
			CHORUS. - That morningstar, etc.

	With maturity, gaming was passe,
	But I chanced on rattan fighting in the S-C-A.
	I slogged through the mud of the Pennsic field,
	And I suffered several bruises that have never healed.
		I became so adept at the ground mee-lee,
		That now I am the Ruler of the Mid's Navee!
			CHORUS. - He became, etc.

	Now landsmen all, whoever you may be,
	If you want to rise up to the top of the tree,
	If you fight in the dirt and and the mud with joy,
	Be careful to be guided by this clever ploy -
		Stick close to the army and never go to sea,
		And you all may be rulers of the Mid's Navee!
			CHORUS. - Stick close, etc.


Llywelyn Glyndwr (Mark Cipra)
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"A lie is a sort of myth and a myth is a sort of truth"  
Anthony Burgess/Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac




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