Goat Of Mendes

Upon The Bloody Fields (Of Cairns)

Goat Of Mendes


Streng, Champion of the Fir Bolg: 
Now the time of battle has come 
With axes and swords we shall smite 
The invader's heads shall litter the field 
For our deity and Eireann we fight 

The voice of Tuan: 
With dragon - hearts inside their breast 
The Fir Bolg braved the wave of steel 
Effortlessly invaders fought 
Against the iron wall of shields 
Upon the bloody fields 
Of Cairns 

Streng: 
I will drive them back to the sea 
No Tuatha de Danann shall be spared 
Except for the one, they call Breas the Fair 
For he is the one, whose blood I have shared 

Tuan: 
But suddenly above the field 
A dreadful apparition stands 
The Harvester of Souls appeared 
To reap, what Crom Cruach demands 

The daemon swept the Badb away 
But Nuada grabbed the Sun God's sword 
And with a blinding glare of light 
He drove it through the fiend's black heart 
Thus Crom was denied of his prize 
And so he took the druid instead 
Dragged him screaming to Cythraul 
And left the Fir Bolg to their fate 

Moy Tura! 

Streng (recognizes his failure): 
All for what we lived and fought 
Is lost, like our blood in the sand 
What is left ist bow to the conqueror's gods 
And to go back to Earth in the end 

The voice of Tuan: 
Dusk fell upon the fields of gore 
Victorious stood the Tuatha de Danann 
And silence fell upon the shores 
Of the green island, Eireann 
Upon the bloody fields 
Of Cairns