Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Steeleye Span
Canonical path: /steeleye-span/lanercost
Related lyric paths: 6
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Lanercost
Read Lanercost lyrics by Steeleye Span on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Lanercost
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The priests go down to the river to fish for Friday's meal
The King is brooding day and night
Black with hate, cursing fate
To be ill when the foe is in sight.
The priests they kneel in the chancel in solemn peaceful prayer
The King is laughing, grim and slow
Three brothers die, he hung them high
On a gibbet they died a cruel show.
Kyrie eleison
The priests they crouch o'er their books and scratch away at history
The King he rises from his bed
Leads his men, rides again
But before he sees the border he is dead.
The priests they walk in procession with the coffin of state
The King he leaves his work undone
It is his fate, despite his hate
That his foe lives on to fight his son.
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Steeleye Span performs "Lanercost", and this lyric page sits inside the Steeleye Span catalog on LyroVerse.
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