| Now the sun is sinking slowly
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| Away’s the light
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| 14.000 dead, noone survived?
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| All is lost, our troops defeated
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| I can’t run and hide
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| Here I am, a prisoner in decay
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| But for all time I’ll be your son
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| Let me preach with an iron tongue
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| Oh Lord can’t you see
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| Your knights beheaded by the Saracen
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| What a shameful deed
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| And in my dreams
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| There is no pain
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| Soon the day will come to take revenge
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| To bring back the fields once won
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| Let me preach with an iron tongue
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| (Richard I, «Lionheart». King of England)
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| My call to arms arises slowly
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| Heeded throughout the land
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| To praise the Lord, the one and only
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| We hold HIS crown in hand
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| Over the sea on ships so strong
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| Another holy war
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| Jerusalem we’ll bring you back to To where you once belonged
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| The shore is near, Acre in sight
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| The fortress will not hold
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| A noble knight, I save your life
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| The ransom paid in gold
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| Their cities fall one by one
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| Back into Christian hand
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| By the fields of Arsuf we’ve won
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| Leaving thousands dead
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| (Sultan Saladin)
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| For now we must retreat, our forces failed
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| I don’t know what went wrong
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| The «Lionheart"is too strong
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| Will this war never end
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| (Pope Gregory VIII.)
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| Kingdom of the brave, far beyond the sea
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| Men from England, Spain and France
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| Take the cross, deliverance for the
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| Master, not the slave, kings we’ll always be Seek redemption for your sins
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| And the realm of glory just begins
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| (Richard I., «Lionheart», King of England)
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| I tried to take revenge
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| The fields are littered with blood and stench
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| Jaffa, Acre, men and land
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| I wrest from the Sultan’s hand
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| For the sake of heaven’s light
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| Many fought and many died
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| If I can’t reach Jerusalem
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| I’ll turn away my eyes again
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| (Pope Clement III.)
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| My hail goes out to the strong and the bright
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| The Templars, the Hospitalers, the Teutonic Knights
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| Without whom everything is lost and undone
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| The soldiers of Christ preaching with an iron tongue
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| (Richard I., «Lionheart», King of England)
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| The King’s crusade, at last a failure
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| So many brave men died
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| We sought revenge for the fields of Hattin
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| To leave the pain behind
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| I finalized for now a treaty
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| To make the peace a fact
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| And Saladin my noble enemy
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| Has launched his last attack
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| (Sultan Saladin)
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| And now the war is over, the «Lionheart"tamed
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| Jerusalem we hold
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| Under Muslim control
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| But they will come again
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| (Chorus)
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| Retrospect:
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| (Count Raymond III. of Tripoli)
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| All you Christian knights and soldiers
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| Who came from magic light
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| To lead you into battle
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| Has filled my heart with pride
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| HIS kingdom now awaits us The angels choir sings
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| Hattin, it has shown us What blinded hate can bring |