Shield My Kinsmen (Endewearde vers.) - Leafy Greens & Mutton

Local medieval singing group, Leafy Greens and Mutton, performing the song, "Shield My Kinsmen (Endewearde-ized version)", (Karen Unrein Kahan/ arr. Aaron Pavao) at the Bangor Public Library on August 29, 2007.

Check out their website at http://www.geocities.com/aneleda

Leafy Greens and Mutton are also members of the SCA's (Society for Creative Anachronism) Shire of Endewearde (central and northern Maine).

Check out photos from the event at: http://photobucket.com/albums/ee79/catgirlpink/0000_SCAevents/2007-08-29_LGM

The Society for Creative Anachronism:
http://www.sca.org
The SCA's East Kingdom:
http://www.eastkingdom.org

Karen Unrein Kahan's website:
http://www.savagedaughter.com

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Shield My Kinsmen (Endewearde version)
original Northshield version tune/lyrics c. 1996 Karen Unrein Kahan

Shield my kinsmen from their foes
and from the teeth of the wind.
Shield my kinsmen from sorrow and from shame
until fate brings us shoulder to shoulder
to stand as brothers again.

We are the children of the ice and snow
and of the golden plains and rolling hills.
We are the children of the water, cold and wide,
and cool dark forests--
we are the people
we are the people of o Endewearde.

The winter tries to break us on its anvil made of ice
but our blood beats hot and true as steel.
Not a drop of it is spilled on our pure white snow
but what was bought by rivers
Crimson rivers
crimson rivers of our foemens' own!

We are the keepers of our future and our past
and the names of our heroes passed and gone
on whose courage, strength and wisdom
o Endewearde stands--
teach their stories to your children
To our children
'til their names are written in our blood and bone.

Now we run behind the hawk who leads the way to war
for he flies in the fashion that we live--
like a keen and bloodied spear poised at the Dragon's side
we will face our foemen
to fight for the honor
To fight for the honor of o Endewearde!

Shield my kinsmen from their foes and
from the teeth of the wind.
Shield my kinsmen from sorrow and from shame
until fate brings us shoulder to shoulder
to stand as brothers again.

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[katproductionsinc]

Checkout the new war song on Youtube "Spilling Our Blood For War" then buy it on iTunes.

[BerzerkerPrime]

Ooh! I like the addition of the percussion at the end!  Nicely done!