Categories: just-life
Date: 28 February 2007 22:53:48
It's not often you come across a song that encapsulates all aspects of your life, but I was pleased to find one.... I say find, it wasn't me who actually found it...... that honour goes to Moonstruck but I thought I'd share.....
I am an archer without peer,
My arrows faithfully find their mark
But when I beckon a comely lass
She flies away like a skittish lark.
Oh, lonely shall I spend my days.
Never to find my true love.
Fighters always get the girls
And leave nothing for us but the crumbs.
My aim is true with a lady love
From twenty yards, my shaft hits the spot
While fighters flail 'round with hunks of steel
To compensate for what they've not got.
My skin is softer than purest silk
My body free of disfigurement.
So why do ladies near and far
Seek victims of dismemberment?
I've killed ten score of the bravest men
With arrows right between their eyes.
But let a swordsman come in the room
And all of the ladies will let out sighs.
My skill in archery is my life
But ladies fair I have never scored.
So I've put for sale my finest bow,
And bought a big bloody bastard sword.
by Yitzhak ibn Yoshua
filk: Greensleeves