Act III: The Bloody Verdict of Verden - Christopher Lee.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Marie-Claire Calvet
[00:01.00] 作曲 : Marco Sabiu
[00:02.88]Young Charlemagne:
[00:08.88]Does a man have to fight all his life
[00:13.08]Only in death to take flight to the skies
[00:19.53]Warmongers vie to take my throne
[00:22.32]No respect is ever shown
[00:25.62]To Pope or Prince, nor man nor beast
[00:32.25]And steal our cattle for to feast
[00:36.69]No earthly princeling mine shall take
[00:41.85]Or scand'lous idolatry so fake.
[00:43.92]Charlemagne:
[00:48.24]In borderland raids they came in their hordes
[00:53.10]Ransacking villages, taking the spoils
[00:57.33]With nothing to lose and possessions few
[01:04.20]Bold, sturdy, fearless and cruel.
[01:05.97]Young Charlemagne:
[01:08.97]Defiant of baptism on pain of death
[01:13.50]Tough measures call for me to be ruthless
[01:19.08]To set an example to the rebels
[01:22.86]Draconian for their worship of devils.
[01:24.57]Charlemagne:
[01:27.45]How many times did I venture forth
[01:32.34]To the extreme wilderness of the North
[01:34.86]To subdue those whose hatred was great
[01:41.10]'Gainst churches and priests of our Christian state?
[01:48.12]Four thousand men all dead in one day
[01:52.56]They would not renounce their heathen ways
[01:58.35]Thirty years of campaigning consumed
[01:59.76]To subject those pagans to Christian rule.
[02:04.83]Choir:
[02:13.68]The Bloody Verdict of Verden.
[02:14.64]Young Charlemagne:
[02:14.97]River flowing red with the blood of 4000 men that I did behead.
[02:17.25]Charlemagne:
[02:21.45]I shed blood of Saxon men
[02:22.80]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[02:24.45]Young Charlemagne:
[02:25.14]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[02:27.33]Charlemagne:
[02:28.26]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[02:29.34]Young Charlemagne:
[02:29.76]I shed it at Verden.
[02:30.90]Charlemagne:
[02:31.50]I shed the blood of the Saxon men
[02:33.93]I shed the blood of 4000 Saxon men
[02:35.94]I shed blood of Saxon men
[02:37.62]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[02:38.31]Young Charlemagne:
[02:44.13]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[02:46.44]Young Charlemagne:
[03:04.59]Shall my realm be taken as I toil
[03:08.88]To force others out of Frankish soil
[03:16.02]And I return to learn that all is lost?
[03:17.79]Yet my companions I trust, the sword and the cross.
[03:23.55]Those good industrious Frankish folk,
[03:25.92]Who toil our lands with oxen and yoke
[03:36.39]Whilst Lombard, Bulgar and Moorish men
[03:38.04]Dare to even glance at them.
[03:39.75]Charlemagne:
[03:43.50]Converting entire tribes by the sword
[03:48.15]In the name of Jesus Christo our Lord
[03:50.64]On that day in Verden no mercy given
[03:56.49]Victory for the chosen people.
[03:59.40]Young Charlemagne:
[03:59.73]Weary grow I of this task which fell
[04:08.61]'Pon the shoulders of a man who yearns to spend
[04:10.47]But one hour with wife and child
[04:19.44]To gaze 'pon faces innocent and mild.
[04:24.99]Charlemagne:
[04:25.38]Four thousand men all dead in one day
[04:29.49]They would not renounce their heathen ways
[04:37.65]Thirty years of campaigning consumed
[04:38.43]To subject those pagans to Christian rule.
[04:40.86]Choir:
[04:41.01]To build a better world than ever has been seen.
[04:48.66]Charlemagne and Young Charlemagne:
[04:52.71]An empire made great by deeds of great Kings.
[04:56.49]Charlemagne:
[04:58.29]I shed blood of Saxon men
[04:59.73]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[05:01.62]Young Charlemagne:
[05:02.04]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[05:04.23]Charlemagne:
[05:05.16]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[05:05.91]Young Charlemagne:
[05:06.66]I shed it at Verden.
[05:07.62]Charlemagne:
[05:08.97]I shed the blood of the Saxon men
[05:10.86]I shed the blood of 4000 Saxon men
[05:14.46]I shed blood of Saxon men
[05:16.83]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.
[05:17.52]Young Charlemagne:
[05:21.00]I shed the blood of the Saxon men.