[00:00.000] 作曲 : Corby Lund [00:31.192]I tried my best to stop them, yes, I tried to make them wait [00:35.148]And I appealed to their decency show mercy on this day [00:39.504]I issued them strong orders on pain of death and disarray [00:43.902]But in the end they would not listen and raised their lances anyway [00:54.025]Men of no account they were, their breeding crude and low [00:57.936]With not a trace of wisdom, Grace or virtue in their souls [01:02.265]Yet trained them long and hard I did to bend them to the crown [01:06.666]To act as tools of justice, follow edict handed down [01:33.063]You see these were not militia men, a-fighting for their homes [01:37.397]Nor fathers, sons nor husbands, sire, but foreigners on loan [01:42.463]Mercenary killers, career soldiers to a man [01:46.535]Lashing out with vengeance one cannot accept or understand [02:39.874]I could not instill the discipline 'twas duty to inspire [02:44.127]And they responded in the end to instincts of the basest kind [02:49.070]Now on my knee before you here, I drop my eyes in shame [02:53.334]Albeit little consolation take my head for I'm to blame [03:12.933]O, so spoke the leader on losing control