Editing Dirge of the Red Lions

Dirge for the Red Lions.

Sang to the Tune of "When the Tigers Broke Free" By Pink Floyd

;T’was just before dawn
;One hopeless dark morning in 3430
;When our King and Commander
;Gil’ Galad, went on to the Mountain
;And there asked that his Lords be withdrawn
;And Numenor gave thanks
;As the Elven ranks held back
;The Trolls from the banks for a while
;And the Towers of the Teeth
;Were held for the price
;Of a few extraordinary lives.
;

;And kind Isildur
;Sent Mother a note
When he learned Caran-Rhaw’s Lord was gone.
It was, I recall,
In the form of a scroll,
With gold leaf adorned,
And I found it one day
In the armories below, hidden away.
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
Elendil’s heir signed it
With his own seal and stamp


It was dark all around
There was blood on the ground
When the Black Orcs broke free
No Lord there was saved
From the Vanguard of troops from the Wood or the Sea.
They all went to their graves
Most of them dead,
The rest of them dying
Thus ends how the Dark Lord took
All the Red Lions from me.