Tono: E
Introducción:
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"What do I do next?" said the Bishop to the Priest,
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"I have spent my whole life waiting, preparing for the feast,
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And now you say Jerusalem has fallen and is lost,
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The king of Heathen Saracen has seized the holy cross."
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Then the Priest said "Oh my Bishop, we must put them to the sword,
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For God in all his mercy will find a just reward,
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For the noble men and sinners, and knights of ready hand
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Who will be the Lord's crusader, send word through all the land,
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Jerusalem is lost,
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Jerusalem is lost,
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Jerusalem is lost "
"Tell me what to do", said the King upon his throne,
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Jerusalem is lost"...
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Ooh, high on a hill, in the town of Jerusalem,
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There stood Saladin, the king of the Saracens,
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Whoring and drinking and snoring and sinking, around him his army lay,
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Secure in the knowledge that he had won the day
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A messenger came, blood on his feet and a wound in his chest,
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"The Christians are coming!" he said, "I have seen their cross in the West,"
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In a rage Saladin struck him down with his knife
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And he said "I know that this man lies,
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They quarrel too much, the Christians could never unite!
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I am invincible, I am the king,
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I am invincible, and I will win..."
Close they came, the army of Richard the Lionheart,
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Jerusalem is lost,
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Jerusalem is lost,
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Jerusalem is lost...
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Jerusalem."