| Lyrics: | What do I do next?" said the Bishop to the Priest,
"I have spent my whole life waiting,
preparing for the Feast,
And now you say Jerusalem has fallen and is lost,
The King of
Heathen Saracen has seized the Holy Cross;"
Then the Priest said "Oh my Bishop, we must
put them to the sword,
For God in all His mercy will find a just reward,
For the Noblemen
and sinners, and Knights of ready hand
Who will be the Lord's Crusader, send word through all
the land,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is
lost;"
"Tell me what to do," said the King upon his throne,
"But speak to me in
whispers, for we are not alone,
They tell me that Jerusalem has fallen to the hand
Of some
bedevilled Eastern heathen who has seized the Holy Land;"
Then the Chamberlain said
"Lord, we must call upon our foes
In Spain and France and Germany to end our bitter
wars,
All Christian men must be as one and gather for the fight,
You will be their leader,
begin the Battle cry,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is
lost"...
Ooh, high on a hill, in the town of Jerusalem,
There stood Saladin, the
King of the Saracens,
Whoring and drinking and snoring and sinking, around him his army
lay,
Secure in the knowledge that he had won the day;
A messenger came, blood on his
feet and a wound in his chest,
"The Christians are coming!" he said, "I have seen their Cross
in the West",
In a rage Saladin struck him down with his knife
And he said "I know that
this man lies,
They quarrel too much, the Christians could never unite!
I am
invincible, I am the King,
I am invincible, and I will win..."
Closer they came,
the army of Richard the Lionheart,
Marching by day and night, with soldiers from every
part,
And when the Crusaders came over the mountains and they saw Jerusalem,
They fell to
their knees and prayed for her release;
They started the battle at dawn, taking the city
by storm,
With horsemen and bowmen and engines of war,
They broke through the city
walls,
The Heathens were flying and screaming and dying,
And the Christian swords were
strong,
And Saladin ran when he heard their victory song;
"We are invincible, God
is the King,
We are invincible, and we will win!"
"What do I do now?" said the Wise
man to the Fool,
"I have spent my whole life searching, to find the Golden Rule,
Though
centuries have disappeared, the memory still remains
Of those enemies together, could it be
that way again?"
Then the Fool said "Oh you Wise men, you really make me laugh,
With
your talk of vast persuasion and searching through the past,
There is only greed and evil in
the men who fight today,
The Song of the Crusader has long since gone
away,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is lost,
Jerusalem is
lost...
Jerusalem |
