Christopher Lee: "The Bloody Verdict of Verden" Music Video

Does a man have to fight all his life, only in death to take flight to the skies? War mongers vie to take my throne, no respect is ever shown. In borderland raids they came in their hordes, ransacking villages, taking the spoils with nothing to lose and possessions few. Bold, sturdy, fearless and cruel. Defiant of baptism, on pain of death, tough measures call for me to be ruthless. To satanic some roll to the rebels, draconian for their worship of devils. Four thousand men all dead in one day, they would not renounce the heathen ways. Thirty years of campaigning consumed to subject those pagans to Christian rule. The burning of Vernon. River flowing red with the blood of four thousand men that I did behead. I shed the blood of the Saxon man I shed the blood of the Saxon man I shed the blood of the Saxon man I shed it up again I shed the blood of the Saxon man I shed the blood of four thousand Saxon men I shed the blood of the Saxon man I shed the blood of the Saxon man I shed the blood of the Saxon man Shall my head be taken as I toil To force others out of Frankish soil I return to learn that all is lost Yet my companions I trust The sword and the cross Converting entire tribes by the sword In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord On that day in Verdun No mercy given Victory for the chosen people Fearing for a while of this task which fell On the shoulders of a man who knows despair Like one hour with wife and child To gaze upon faces innocent and mild Four thousand men all dead in one day They would not renounce their heathen ways Thirty years of campaigning consumed To subject those pagans to Christian rule Who will look down on the one that has been seen An empire made great by deeds of great kings I shed the blood of Saxon man I shed the blood of the Saxon man I shed the blood of the Saxon man I shed it at Verdun I shed the blood of four thousand Saxon men I shed the blood of Saxon man I shed the blood of the Saxon man