King Of The English - Mael Mórdha

Charged with the most pressing of tasks

We journey far from Laighin’s shore

In search of aid for my Righ’s cause

From he who styles himself King of the English

The second Henry, great grandson of the bastard

Who wormed his way across the English channel

Deposing the Saxon (who were) weakened by Danes

Old habits die hard… landgrabbers

So what be our fate.

Vanquished of Victors

Wolves gnaw at our heels so we ask the help of Lions

To Wales where did begin our search

To Fitzharding, De Barra and the Fleming

O’er the March to the English plain — Saxon under the Gall Glassa’s yoke

In London we’re told he be in France fighting to hold his third of that land

Another voyage across the channel.

Before the Saxon they deposed the French

So what be our fate.

Vanquished of Victors

Wolves gnaw at our heels so we ask the help of Lions

But to who will they turn when the wolves are gone?

Frank, Saxon, Scot and Welsh — In their fate I feel the answer

Many days of travel by horse and foot through a land rich ev’n in the poverty

of war

‘Till finnaly with the King of the English was my Righ granted an audience

The Gall be strange, slaves to ceremony, all restrained — cold if you will

Cruel, calculating but fierce in war.

Is our fate to follow the Saxon and Frank?

Henry grants permission for troops to be gathered by my King in his name

By royal writ and we return to Britain

So what be our fate.

Vanquished of Victors

Wolves gnaw at our heels so we ask the help of Lions

But to who will they turn when the wolves are gone?

Frank, Saxon, Scot and Welsh — In their fate I feel the answer