When Caid Sings

When Caid Sings

When war transforms the park or farm
And poles do canvas carry
Good gentles true their firelogs hew
And in the camps make merry
When singing all as with one voice
It seems the very tents rejoice
And merriment about doth spring,
When Caid Sings.

Chorus:
Let every voice so pitch its song
To help its neighbor sing along
To each and all, contentment bring,
When Caid sings.

When thrones are seen and heralds keen
Call forth the court assembly
To servants true are titles due
Our host of noble gentry
Then with a will, yea one accord
We sing huzzah for Lady, Lord,
And Praise our Crescent Queen and King,
And Caid sings.

Chorus

When on the field our swords we weild,
Then hear the martial sound
With feral joy our swords employ,
The death songs echo round
Rebounding still from knight and squire,
Starting lowly, building higher,
So surely then, the blades will swing,
When Caid Sings.

Chorus

Our songs grow sweeter every year
Some voices sweet with others strong
Gently round ascending
With harmonies a-blending
In unison pours forth the song
Uplifting beams of Inn or Hall
And shaking plaster from the wall
When Caid Sings.

Lyrics by Mora Spadera, first sung in Caid at GWW 2018 by the Fig Tree Chamber of Rhetorick

This song is a filk of "When All Men Sing", originally by Keith Scowcroft and Derek Gifford.