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Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by Larry   » Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:09 pm

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OK so the lead in is based on the Snippets a bit and some of what the MAP's appear to show... So spoileryish warning
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In a different thread, Cmdr. Peter2 suggested that perhaps Earl Hanth's troops would be singing "While we were marching through Dohlar" in the near future. A takeoff on a nice old Union Army marching song, and that got me to thinking. If there was a musically inclined member of the inner circle, there are certainly any number of good martial songs, marching music and inspirational pieces in Earths history. With a bit of trimming and some adjustment of lyrics this unknown (i.e. no text evidence for such to date)could produce some real winners by mining this trove. And music can be important. Nothing else stirs the spirit and rallies weary souls like music. With that in mind I wondered, Can any of you come up with possible songs for the troops of the Charisian Empire? Peter2 started us off (and I therefore nominate him for the post of Grand Bandmaster for the Empire of Charis Army band) but what else is out there?

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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by Peter2   » Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:42 pm

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It's long way to Zion City,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way past Wishbone Mountains,
Where we go to smite the foe . . .

:lol:

I know the geography is a bit cockeyed, but it's all I could think of on the spur of the moment :)
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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by PeterZ   » Thu Sep 15, 2016 6:10 pm

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I didn't feel the third stanza needed changing and fit quite nicely.

Mine eyes would see the glory of Safehold set free
It is shining in God’s hand beyond any Inquisitor’s decree
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the spark of a hundred novel tools
They have builded Him an alter free of corrupted human rules
I can read His Righteous Writ by His light that they help fuel
His truth is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.
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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by EdThomas   » Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:54 pm

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Maybe we can have chorusses of "We will, we will... ROCK You" synchronized with angle gun salvoes! " Sorry, couldn't resist
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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by Sharp Claw   » Fri Sep 16, 2016 1:44 am

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Actually, Glory Hallelujah doesn't need much changing, maybe the verse about Jesus,

In a beautiful cathedral Gods truth was found across the sea
with a glory in its telling that transfigured you and me
as we fight to make men holy, let us fight to make men free
Gods truth is marching on.

And some of the unofficial verses work as well.

We'll hang Zhaspahr Clyntahn from a rotten apple tree
We'll hang Zhaspahr Clyntahn from a rotten apple tree
We'll hang Zhaspahr Clyntahn from a rotten apple tree
He ain't gonna kill no more

The Army and Navy songs fit as well

Over hill and over dale we will hit the dusty trail
As those caissons go rolling along
For its hi hi hee in the field artillery...

Anchors aweigh...
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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by emeye   » Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:51 am

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Please, beware that hanging from a rotten tree may fail to be lethal

Sharp Claw wrote:Actually, Glory Hallelujah doesn't need much changing, maybe the verse about Jesus,

In a beautiful cathedral Gods truth was found across the sea
with a glory in its telling that transfigured you and me
as we fight to make men holy, let us fight to make men free
Gods truth is marching on.

And some of the unofficial verses work as well.

We'll hang Zhaspahr Clyntahn from a rotten apple tree
We'll hang Zhaspahr Clyntahn from a rotten apple tree
We'll hang Zhaspahr Clyntahn from a rotten apple tree
He ain't gonna kill no more

The Army and Navy songs fit as well

Over hill and over dale we will hit the dusty trail
As those caissons go rolling along
For its hi hi hee in the field artillery...

Anchors aweigh...
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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by chrisd   » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:05 am

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All these songs seem to me to have been written by "outsiders" rather than grown from the troops.

On the other hand :-

I don't want to join the Army.
I don't want to go to war.
I'd rather hang around
Tellesberg Baseball Ground
Living on the earnigs of a "High Born Lady"


(Tellesberg Baseball Ground replaces Picadilly Underground from the WW1 version)

Or, to the tune of "What a friend we have in Jesus"
"When this bleedin’ war is over
No more soldiering for me
When I get my civvies clothes on
Oh, how happy I shall be.
No more church parades on Sunday
No more asking for a pass
I shall tell the sergeant major
To stick his passes up his arse."
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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by Keith_w   » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:50 am

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PeterZ wrote:I didn't feel the third stanza needed changing and fit quite nicely.

Mine eyes would see the glory of Safehold set free
It is shining in God’s hand beyond any Inquisitor’s decree
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the spark of a hundred novel tools
They have builded Him an alter free of corrupted human rules
I can read His Righteous Writ by His light that they help fuel
His truth is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.


that was the first one I thought of.

I then thought of others which I had learned in the back of a Deuce and a Half, but they really weren't appropriate.
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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by Maggie   » Thu Sep 29, 2016 1:21 pm

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Let's not forget the folks on the HOMEFRONT!

(drumroll, please)

How ya gonna keep 'em
Down in Dohlar
After they've seen
Char-ee!?

Can we compete with Tell-es-burg
Where electric lights
Will enliven the nights?

How we gonna keep 'em
From all the glamour
Of that tech-no-lo-gy?

They won't come back to dig an' plow
They'll want to mechanize the cow!

Oh, how ya gonna keep 'em
Down in Dohlar
After they've seen CHAR-EE-EE?
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Re: Music for Safehold SPOILERS (Sort of)
Post by eldrwyrm   » Thu Sep 29, 2016 2:09 pm

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The only real problem I see is that the first time some Charisian drops a trumpet/banjo duet into the middle of Battle Hymn of the Republic, it's going to turn into a hoe-down. :lol:

Maybe some Siddarmarkian should take up the challenge. It only seems right.

Maybe Irys can take up the challenge of having her twins be musical prodigies.
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