Key Sorel

Songs

• General

  Key Sorel can be counted upon to know most, if not all, of the popular songs of the day, from jaunty marching songs to epic ballads of valiant derring-do to tender love songs and odes to unspecified lovers. He also knows quite a few of the bawdier songs, but he usually sings them in their cleaner variants, depending upon his audience.

• The Morning Fair

  One of Key's biggest hits, a song of slow and steady rhythm and a tune which moves the soul.
  
  

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  The Morning fair, she calls my name
  and I return my sweet reply,
  'Thy golden hair, thy wond'rous frame,
  O say thou lov'st me just the same,
  O Morning dear, for thine am I.'
  
  'Fore'er I'll love thee just the same,
  O Morning dear, for thine am I.'
  
  
  'My Evening dear,' she calls to me,
  her voice the song of birds in flight,
  'Your words I hear, your face I see,
  But how could e'er our love to be,
  the Dawn uniting with the Night?'
  
  'Yet still I long our love to be,
  The Dawn uniting with the Night.'
  
  
  I lay before my lover's feet,
  My starry raiment cast away,
  'Yet all the more I love you sweet,
  And evermore I long to meet,
  my Morning fair, at break of day.'
  
  'Yes, say we evermore shall meet,
  O Morning fair, at break of day.'
  
  
  'I long to be with you,' she cries,
  As evening wanes into the night,
  'Our wings spread wide, our hearts soar high,
  And draw you close where sea meets sky,
  Where earth and heaven fast unite.'
  
  'I'll paint our love across the sky,
  The seas made red as we unite.'
  
  
  All night I wait to see my love,
  her face the light of dawn to me.
  Her voice what makes the skies to move,
  the sun and moon and stars above,
  the only thing I long to see.
  
  More than the moon or stars above,
  my Morning fair I long to see...
  

• Hey Ho!

  A rapid-fire tavern song, rowdy and with plenty of spots for audience interaction. Toe-tapping required.
  
  

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  Hey ho! What now,
  Let's hear of the moon that jumped the cow!
  Spin us a tale, and pour us an ale,
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  The moon, it shone up in the sky,
  But down below it heard a cry,
  And looked to earth, a wond'ring why!
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  It saw a cow, a-weeping great!
  It moaned, and groaned, and beat its pate!
  And said "I'm soon for the dinner plate!"
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  To calm the cow, the moon came down,
  And set itself upon the ground.
  "Cease now to make that awful sound!"
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  "But how can I calm," declared the beast,
  "When soon I shall be the farmer's feast!"
  "Can't I have a cry at least?"
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  Meanwhile the farmer came outside,
  A-hearing how his poor cow cried,
  And there it was the moon he spied!
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  The moon, so startled, leaped in fright,
  And rose once more into the night.
  But the farmer!
  The farmer said, "Well thar's a sight!"
  "I thought I'd seen it all, but now,
  I've seen a moon that jumped a cow!
  I suppose instead, we'll kill the sow."
  
  Hey ho, a terrible tale!
  Bartender, pour us another ale!
  What else have you got? What else is for sale?
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  
  Now tell us the tale of the maiden fair,
  And the knight who saved her from a bear!
  Spin us a tale, and pour us an ale,
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  A lusty night, a maiden fair,
  He saved her from a hungry bear,
  Who'd dragged her to its dingy lair.
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  "Oh darling maid, fear not!" he spake,
  And from his sheath his sword did take,
  The better a thankful maid to make.
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  "Oh woe! Oh no!" The maid did cry!
  He wiped the tears right from her eye,
  "Fear not!" said knight, "It's him who'll die!"
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  Hey now! But tell it true,
  Just what that gallant knight did do!
  Now wait until my tale is through!
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  The bear advanced with gaping jaw;
  It thrashed and gnashed and swiped its paw,
  And then the knight his chance he saw!
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  
  He cleaved its head, and left it dead!
  His face and hands were stained with red!
  But the maid!
  "You fiend! That was my pa!" she said!
  "He's hairy, aye, but must he die?"
  And so she spat him in the eye!
  Ne'r since so fast a knight did fly!
  
  Hey ho, so that's how it ends!
  A tale that I'm sure to repeat to my friends!
  I'll sing it through if I remember it true!
  Hey ho! Let's go!
  

• Thou Dearest Heart of Mine

  A slow and passionate love song.
  
  

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  Oh, my love, thou dearest heart of mine,
  that forever I should be with thee,
  and thy hand forever mine to be,
  by powr's immortal, yea, a love divine.
  
  If we should on life's journey come to part,
  let all my soul be rent from me and lost.
  I know no greater or no dearer cost,
  than losing what I hold fast in my heart."
  
  
  That love's lone light my guide in dark should be,
  That all my steps should cause me not to fall.
  For as you shine my eyes perceivè all.
  Your rays alone allow me thus to see.
  
  
  To walk alone along the weary night-paths here,
  were all my dread, indeed, and all my fear.
  
  So keep me near thee every step we take.
  So let our life of love sweet music make.
  

• What E'er May Come

  A song he wrote for a special someone; not one he really ever sings publicly, at least not without a bit of editing of names...
  
  

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  The wind and rain may fall, my dear,
  Until the skies shall break.
  Until the very mountains shake,
  But still with you I have no fear.
  
  Our love a bastion strong shall make,
  And through the storm we'll stay right here.
  
  
  The storm outside blows cruel and cold,
  But I shall keep you warm with me.
  And in each other's arms we'll be
  Two glimm'ring lights, immortal souls.
  
  What e'er may come, what e'er shall be,
  So long as we have hands to hold.
  
  
  The dawn will come, the storm will cease,
  And in the light we both shall rise,
  The sunlight dancing in your eyes,
  The world returned to perfect peace.
  
  And we shall both make Paradise,
  My hand in yours, my dear Clairice.