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The Anglo-Saxons

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john: "we'd like to dedicate this song to our friends, the former 
inhabitants of the british isles!" 

they used to paint their bodies blue 
a couple of them might be distantly related to you. 
according to ceasar they shaved their entire bodies, 
except for the upper lip and the head 

yeah, the anglo-saxons 
yeah, the anglo-saxons 
a sub-literate bunch of guys, 
though some sources say otherwise. 
yeah, the anglo-saxons 

yeah, they were men on a mission, 
preserving their poetry by oral tradition 
yeah, oral tradition is all you get 
until saint augustine brought in the alphabet. 

yeah, the anglo-saxons 
yeah, the anglo-saxons, 
in 1065 they were ragin' 
but 1066 brought the norman invasion. 
yeah, the anglo-saxons 

go!