Onward Christian Soldiers

Aching floorboards spoke my name

In the belly of the beast to foreign shores

In tune with tides that whispered fame

And fortune for our humble Lord

Ecclesiastical banners

Unfurl in the manner

Of those who seek conquest and gain

Sail forth for Outremer

The Promised Land prised from the hands

Of blasphemers amassing there

Awakened from the desert sands capes

Onward Christian soldiers

Fated Nazareth and Bethlehem

Have fallen to an enemy bolder

It is said to widespread slaughter and rape

We are all sinners, enslaved to the cross

God wills The Great War to erase

The Judaic acres, the Mohammedans

In defence of our revenant faith

Political prowess takes to the stage

A pilgrimage led bu the sword

The sweet maiden blast of our clarion rage

Against the foul heretic hordes

The blazing invader Crusader parade

Vatican sanctioned and Mammon adored

Now, papal-led to die

The fatal battle cry

A natural army vies

For stretching Christendom

Wide, we slay the infidel

Remiss our way to Hell

Pay well the wishing well

With golden martyrdom

Scaling the towers with power ordained

Dark flowers of infamy bud

Ransacking, hacking off Saracen reign

The temple drinks claret in floods

Mercy forgotten in our ill-gotten gain

Of women and innocent blood

Death abides in this domain of ashes

The streets are stained

With the butchered foe

Now I hear the bells of triumph ringing

As they lay there rotting in their thousand shrouds

Beneath the clouds

That skitter and scatter

Dispersions on the truth of heaven

We are all sinners, enslaved to the cross

God wills The Great War to erase

The Judaic acres, the Mohammedans

In defence of our revenant faith

No crescent moon

No prophet of doom

Shall wail above Jerusalem

Vast hypocrites

All grasping for glitz

Have taken The Mount and The Tomb

Here in the kingdom of loss