Battle Songs

[Fortuna]

Hi, folks!

My first instinct when going to make this thread was to put it in Roleplaying Games, but on reflection that seemed to needlessly restrict my potential readers. I'm trying to amass a collection of songs for a dwarf bard I'll soon be playing to boom out across the battlefield. Anything whose main draw is the words will do fine, since he's skilled in both oratory and singing. While he hails from a vaguely Scottish culture, that doesn't rule out awesome things from other cultures.

My list thus far (I will expand it if and when I get suggestions I like)

The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred Tennyson)
March of Cambreadth (Heather Alexander)


Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Tavar]

Battle Hymn of the Republic?

[Kitten Champion]

A brief search revealed these. (http://www.contemplator.com/war.html#scot) Although you'll need to fiddle with them a bit for your context.

You're singing these right?

[Fortuna]

Battle Hymn of the Republic?

A tad too religious for my tastes. Sorry.

EDIT: Actually, the game is over IRC, so I'll be linking them and typing the lyrics. That's like singing, right? >.>

[Metahuman1]

Saw title, and the first things that popped into my head were the Theme to Mortal Kombat and Duel of the Fates (one of the only redeeming quality's of Star Wars Episode I, the others being the epic Lightsaber duel with Darth Maul at the end and seeing Liam Neson as Obi Wan's Master. )

[18th Avenger]

Passion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrqbSjtfrRc), the orchestral version. Near the end, it becomes this amazing "march against the darkness" sort of song.

[Raimun]

Well, Battle Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5zZZKnuzO4) comes to my mind. :smallcool:

[Gnoman]

This might fit the bill, though there are enough nationalistic and historical references that you'd have to tweak the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPkxZ6pbz_c

[Dr.Epic]

This. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAga2AjfZlg)

And this. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64)

:smalltongue:

[Das Platyvark]

Men of Harlech. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtnWVvDX6k)

[dehro]

Era - Ameno
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SvxaNQ6d7M)
O Fortuna - Carl Orff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXM1HAARqqg)
or one of these (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f71DWpgO9uw)

[Starbuck_II]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ex8dmquJ1o
Hand of Doom

Battle Stations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCbJSGWim9E

Call to Arms:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j67ydEXDiIY&feature=related

Metal Ripper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ7XMWSiHUI&feature=related

Wanted Dead or Alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho
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Die for Metal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpPEECWdjK0

Superhero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5xCJHaCzeo&feature=related

[Silverbit]

I second Men of Harlech.
Try this (www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcxZ5fKT-zc) (the bits with BARUK KAHZAD in them) and the Kurgan's theme (www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmwJXJbH6wc). Be prepared to air-guitar. Or air electric-bagpipe, it sounds like either.

[Ravens_cry]

Hell March. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QyQ9PsOj6A)
Hymn to Red October (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRsiwBoUQPM).
If either don't get your blood pumping . . . you're dead. :smallbiggrin:

[GloatingSwine]

Stand up and Fight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7woW7DmnR0E)

Battle Metal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgYtXHqx_xU)


And for when you've finished, a drinking song:

One More (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKmL-LXcaK4)

[McStabbington]

You call yourselves geeks? Truly, there is one song that should be in any bard's repetoire for war songs:

The Minstrel Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJudJ9S579A)

[GolemsVoice]

There are a lot of old German mercenary and war songs, but they're all in, well, German. How about them?

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

The Foggy Dew is an Irish battle lament, though y'know again very nation-specific. Would have to change a lot of the national references and such.

"As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I
There Armed lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by
No fife did hum nor battle drum did sound it's dread tatoo
But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell rang out through the foggy dew

Right proudly high over Dublin Town they hung out the flag of war
'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Sulva or Sud El Bar
And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came hurrying through
While Britannia's Huns, with their long range guns sailed in through the foggy dew

'Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go that small nations might be free
But their lonely graves are by Sulva's waves or the shore of the Great North Sea
Oh, had they died by Pearse's side or fought with Cathal Brugha
Their names we will keep where the fenians sleep 'neath the shroud of the foggy dew

But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the springing of the year
And the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few
Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy dew

Ah, back through the glen I rode again and my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men whom I never shall see more
But to and fro in my dreams I go and I'd kneel and pray for you,
For slavery fled, O glorious dead, When you fell in the foggy dew."

[hamishspence]

"Killiekrankie" and "Bonnie Dundee" are the first that spring to mind as Scottish battle songs (maybe less so with Killiecrankie, which seems more humorous).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Dundee