Mommas don’t let your babies grow up to be barbarians.
Don’t let ‘em wield swords and steal dragon gold.
Let ‘em be sorcerers and live to grow old.
Barbarians ain’t easy to love ‘cause they like to kill
things.
They’d rather carve your guts and rob all your jewels,
than live in your stone huts and follow your rules.
Barbarians like taverns and wenches and looted rings.
They drink ale and eat meat over smoky old fires.
But they like a good battle and often end up on pyres.
So, Mommas don’t let your babies grow up to be barbarians.
‘Cause they’ll decorate their helmets and armor with bone.
And they’ll wander the world and they’ll never come home.
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27 comments:
Between you and Charles Rutledge tweeting "Midnight Train to Arkham", I've got plenty of mindworms in my head. :)
Classic!
Nicely done!
Keith, lol. It's been in mine about 24 hours
Sage, thankee
David J., I appreciate it.
Now that tune will ricochet in my head for hours!
I like it. :-)
Patti, then my job is done
Riot Kitty, thanks
Ty, cool
Dude! What's the matter with a bit o' bone decorating your helmet and sword sheath. Even the wenches appreciate a good Barbarian bone.
LMAO! Very entertaining! :)
Mark, a bone joke. From Mark. I've seen everything now. :)
Bernard, thanks, man
I have a soft spot in my heart for all barbarians and poets. Perhaps I have been redundant.
Enjoyed it, Charles. Perhaps, there is a collection in the offing?
R.T. a barbarian poet, now there is a concept. It used to be true, in true barbarian days.
Prashant, maybe I'll start a band and make songs like it. ;)
Charles-Old Willie would be proud! I love beer n burgers around the bonfire. Does that make me a barbarian or just a hungry, thirsty wench?
I love that! I'm sharing it!
Jodi, I suspect barbarian
Aimless, thanks. I appreciate that
And for those who never come home, good riddance. Those old guys were like Navy Seals on steroids. Their vision of heaven as a place you fight all day everyday suggests how lacking they were.
Haha, good one. It takes all kinds to keep the world interesting . . .
Snowbrush, the term barbarian was used by the Romans to indicate those they thought uncivilized, although many of the so called Barbarians had their own cultures. The term has come to mean something more like "thug," but I like the old use of Barbarians and tend to think most of those cultures were quite all right with me, at least for the times they lived in.
Erik, thankee. True indeed.
Purty cool and a nice twist on an old song.
After the first two words, I had to sing-a-long. I didn't sound like Waylon and Willie however.
G. B., don't know why it just popped into my head.
Carole, nor do I.
I thought that was really nice!
That's a good one. I love it.
blogoratti, thanks.
Jack, appreciate it. Glad you enjoyed.
Weird Al would have a HIT with this!
Cloudia, probably so!
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