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Agincourt, France, 1415
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Folk Music for the Current Middle Ages, SCA Bards
Ken is a singer/songwriter and has been performing his brand of pop-folk for about 15 years. He has released three CDs with Raven Boy Music, and is scheduled to release the long-awaited new "Human History" in March of 2008. The CD will consist mainly of songs that view famous historical (usually medieval or older) events from the point of view of a single character who was there. The result is a series of songs that make make you think, laugh, cry while enjoying the excellent folk-pop music that brings the songs to life.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #250
Peak in subgenre #41
Author
Ken and Lisa Theriot
Rights
Raven Boy Music, ASCAP
Uploaded
June 26, 2008
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MP3 3.0 MB • 128 kbps • 3:18
Story behind the song
It’s tough to improve on Shakespeare’s words, but he isn’t always easy to sing. We changed as little as possible from the “Crispin’s Day speech” to make it a song, hopefully one that comrades in arms will want to sing together.
Lyrics
If we are marked this day to die We are enough to lose But if we live, the fewer men, The greater fame accrues! I pray you, wish not one man more Who thinks to claim a share For we have honours fairly won And there is none to spare! Chorus: We band of brothers For if you shed your blood with me You are my brother And men in England now a-bed Shall feel accursed they were not here To fight with us Upon St. Crispin’s Day. Proclaim it now throughout my host To bear no false pretense If you’ve no stomach for this fight Depart and get you hence The price of passage you shall have And rations generous; We will not bear his company Who fears to die with us! CH He that shall live to see old age And come safe home at last Shall on this vigil feast his friends And tell of glories past He will with pride display his wounds And scars however deep And any man who was not here Shall hold his manhood cheap! CH Old men forget, and each man here May crumble and decay But he’ll remember while he lives What feats he did this day So shall the good man teach his son, Until the world is new And to our memories will drink, We few, we happy few! CH words adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry V, Act IV, scene iii, by Lisa Theriot music by Ken and Lisa Theriot © 2007, Raven Boy Music, ASCAP
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