Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:19:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>
To: Faulconess@aol.com
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
Subject: Re: minstrel: re: Phoenyx
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On Mon, 19 Oct 1998 Faulconess@aol.com wrote:

> The main reason I was hunting for the Phoenyx tape, is this.  I live in a
> fighter-heavy Shire, and their marching song (you know the one I'm talking
> about!) is roaringly popular here.  I've even heard some local fighting units
> march into battle singing it:   
> 
> "Axes flash and broadswords swing
> Shining armor's piercing ring
> Horses run with polished shield
> Fight those bastards till they yeild!
> 
> "Midnight mud and blood-red ruin
> Fight to keep this land your own
> Sound the horn and call the cry,
> How many of them can we make die?"
> 
> Very, very rousing;  and a song I can actually get the fighters to sing at
> bardic circles, because everyone seems to have the lyrics memorized.  But
> because the tape was a recycled bootleg...no one here seems to know the NAME
> of the bloody thing!   Do you happen to remember the title?
> 
"March of Cambreadth".  But I think the first line of the second quatrain
-- which, you'll note, is accompanied by the jingle of horse tack -- is 

Midnight mare, blood-red roan
Fight to keep this land our own..

|---------Master Vuong Manh, C.P., Storvik, Atlantia---------|
|Now, let's stop and think: how would Bugs Bunny handle this?|
|----------------(dickeney@access.digex.net)-----------------|


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