NK - Axes, and Vikings, and Mayhem...Oh my! (Was:Axes)

[Miriam Cook]

I LOVE IT!!!!
Zahava
--- "Niewoehner, Hugh" <hughn at SSD.FSI.com> wrote:
> Winfrith,
> Here's my reply....
> 
> Damon
> 
> 
> *****
> The Viking Axe
> Tune: The Marvelous Toy (music available in person)
> by Jondo Oakenshield
> 
> taken from "A Songbook of Some Middle Kingdom
> Favorites"
> 
> When I was just a wee Viking lad, full of health and
> joy,
> My father homeward came from raid, and he gave to me
> a toy.
> A wonder to behold it was, made of steel so bright:
> The moment I laid eyes on it, it became my heart's
> delight.
> 
> CHORUS:
>    It went swish when it moved, and SPLAT when it
> stopped,
>    It never did stand still.  A Viking axe is what
> it was,
>    And it was made to KILL!
> 
> The first time that I picked it up, I had a big
> suprise,
> 'Cause I swung it--then it swung me!  I couldn't
> believe my eyes.
> It first swung once, then swung twice, then whirled
> over my head,
> And when I went on my first raid, this is what it
> did:
> 
> CHORUS
> 
> It first slashed left, and then slashed right, then
> flew out of my hand,
> And when I looked where it had gone, not an enemy
> did stand.
> I found that it had slashed right through a hundred
> warrior's heads,
> And when I picked it up again, the Chivalry was
> dead.
> 
> CHORUS
> 
> The raids have gone by too quickly it seems, and I
> have my own little
> brat,
> And yesterday I gave to him my marvelous Viking axe.
> His eyes nearly popped right out of his head, and he
> gave a sneer of
> glee,
> Neither one of us knows just why it is, but he loves
> it just like me!
> 
> CHORUS


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