The black knight surveys all before him

His charger is thumping the ground

The higher the hill, the higher the ship looks down

From his men and the horses, not a whisper of sound

They're all dressed for the battle

And their colours fly high and flutter around

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The white queen, her face red with anger

Turns to her left and her right

To the men of the king's knights she screams and yells

"Let them know that you've come from the fires of hell

And we'll give them a fight"

♪

Like a black painter's shadow

Unmoved and unhurried

One look from her eye and her king's men they roar

And into the battle like never before

♪

The king's bishop, he moves his men forward

To guard his knightsmen up ahead

For fear of the queen and love for their king

They'll fight till they win or they'll fight till they're dead

♪

Like a black hare that's chased by the devil

O'er the battlefield she flies like the wind

She turns and looks down the path to her prey

This time she swears that "you can't get away

Nobody can save you

And there's nothing can stop me

I will have my way"

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For a captain, the dying, the dead and bereaved

But some of the living you'd never believe

For they ain't got no arms and they ain't got no heads

And their cost of this war, it is written in red

I am the joker, my friend is the fool

Who's been playing the fool since he started at school

When the battle is over and the reckoning's done

We'll sing you a song and we'll tell you who's won

We sing for the king and we dance for the queen

We fall and tumble, never question our fate

For he's never early and I'm never late

When he's playing the fool, then I am the fool's mate