The Mountain and the Man

This song was commissioned by the people of Carlisle upon Wyndrake Winterheart’s ennoblement as Earl and was written by The Bricks

The old man kissed his daughter, and his grandson in her arms
And prayed that their passage would be swift and safe from harm 
She set off on her journey down the rocky mountain road 
Carrying her baby to the fertile lands below 

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The mountain shakes and shudders from its roots up to its crown 
with a roar like mighty thunder the avalanche rolls down 
the frost bites like steel and the winds grow fierce and wild 
A babe wrapped in a blanket of snow, the Mountain made this child 
The old man saw the storm clouds swelling, thick and fast 
And rushed to find his daughter in the lonely mountain pass 
He searched up there for hours, battered by the howling gale 
He found her body like a statue, cold and hard and pale 
In her arms she held her baby, so small and frail and still 
Embraced in icy fingers of the mountain’s deathly chill 
The old man cried out in anguish, loud enough to split the sky 
When the echoes had subsided, he heard the baby cry 

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He carried back the baby to the safety of his keep 
He prayed the boy would live and would awaken from his sleep 
An avalanche roared down on the distant mountainside
And as if the mountain called to him, the boy opened his eyes 
They named him Wyndrake Winterheart, he grew tall and strong and broad 
Master of the hunting knife, the songbook and the sword
On the shores of Wintermere, the boy became a man 
He learned the paths of the Dragonspine, of its people and its clans 

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One day he went wandering on the highest windswept fells 

A snowstorm drove him to a cave and sealed it like a cell 
Two weeks the mountain held him, whispered secrets bold and strange 
When it finally released him, he was forever changed 
With Pendragon in his blood and Excalibur in his hand
The mountain in his heart and a love for his homeland
A true child of the Dragonspine, from Wintermere he came 
The mountain shaped the boy and the man that he became 

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