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ALEC
COME TELL US A TALE OF THE VALIANTS OF OLD...
THEY VANQUISHED SUCH MEN, EVIL AND MEAN!
WE STAND IN THESE WOODS ON THE GROUND WHERE THEY STOOD,
BUT THE TRAIL CANNOT CLEARLY BE SEEN.

THE WIND IS A THIEF, THROUGH THE FOREST IT RIDES,
AND TAUNTS FROM THE LIMBS OF THESE TREES WHERE IT HIDES.
BENDING AND BANGING, ITS LAUGHTER LIKE THUNDER,
STEALING AWAY WITH OUR DREAMS.

GAVIN, ALEC and TROOPS
WE'VE ALL HEARD THE TALES OF VALHALLA.
WE'VE ALL HEARD THE BLASTS OF THE HORN.
WE'VE ALL DREAMT OF LOVE AND OF TERROR.
WE'VE ALL RISEN COLD IN THE MORN.
LET’S SING OUT A SONG OF VALHALLA.

DESMOND
REMEMBER THE TALES OF THE VALIANTS OF OLD...
LIVING WITH PAIN AND SCARS THAT RUN DEEP.
USURPED FROM OUR LANDS, SO WE WANDER TOO LONG
IN A WORLD BETWEEN DREAMING AND SLEEP.

SOON YOU WILL SEE, FROM THE SHADOWS WE’LL RISE,
OUR FIRES WILL BURN GIVING LIGHT TO THE SKIES.
WEARIED AND BLEEDING, THOUGH SPIRITS ARE FLEETING,
TOMORROW THE BATTLE WE’LL KEEP.

DESMOND’S SOLDIERS
WE'VE ALL HEARD THE TALES OF VALHALLA

WE'VE ALL HEARD THE BLASTS OF THE HORN

WE'VE ALL DREAMT OF LOVE AND OF TERROR

WE’VE ALL RISEN COLD IN THE MORN
LETS SING OUT A SONG

ALEC’S TROOPS(offset)

THE TALES OF VALHALLA

THE BLASTS OF THE HORN.

OF LOVE AND OF TERROR

LETS SING OUT A SONG

ALL
 ...OF VALHALLA.

TROOPS & SOLDIERS (in pairs of voices)
TELL US THE TALES OF VALHALLA!
WE MIGHT FIND SOME PEACE IN A SONG!
HELP US TO REST THROUGH THE COLD OF THE NIGHT,
AND RISE WITH NEW STRENGTH COME THE DAWN.
COME THE DAWN! COME THE DAWN!

TROOPS & SOLDIERS (in rounds)
WE'VE ALL HEARD THE TALES OF VALHALLA.

WE'VE ALL HEARD THE TALES OF VALHALLA.

WE'VE ALL HEARD THE BLASTS OF THE HORN.

WE'VE ALL HEARD THE BLASTS OF THE HORN.

WE'VE ALL DREAMT OF LOVE AND OF TERROR.

WE'VE ALL DREAMT OF LOVE AND OF TERROR.

WE'VE ALL RISEN COLD IN THE MORN. LET’S SING OUT A SONG...

ALL
VALHALLA!