Christopher Lee - Charles The Great lyrics

Einhard gather near... come hither to my bedside The hour that I must retire is drawing ever near From the exigencies of this life My deeds laid out before your eyes And my conscience must be clear. Charles my dear son the time has now come The House of Arnulf had produced the heir and son To lead the faithless where we are all waiting for you now In the eternal kingdom where we at last are one. Finally you can look back upon your many great deeds Like your fathers before you have been planted the seeds The consummation of your ancestors' ambitions The founding of a great empire of Christian nations. Father, this oath I swear that I shall fight to keep the Lord In all of Francia and beyond To heathen fields and Saxon hordes Who would tread upon a sacred place of ours? Shall learn to fear the name of Charlemagne One that will be without peer even long after I have gone Charlemagne, oh Charlemagne A shaft of light in a Dark Age For now he is the King of the Franks Standing tall above men of all ranks Homage and tribute to him will pay And all his enemies shall be cast away 'Cause now he has inherited the throne The young prince who soon came into his own. Carloman, my dear brother, we grew apart But my love for you did not depart. You let the plotters turn your head against me And then... oh father! Now he is dead... How his widow and children weep by his bed Now I am ruler of all your empire And I am... alone in the adventure But you came to me, father, I feel not on my own And guided me on my sword As sure as on my throne. And now you are being besieged by the Saracen, But holding firm are the Christian Kings of Spain The Frankish might pushed them back south 'Cross the mountains to form the Spanish March. And what of the other pagan tribes Who disrespected His Holy See? They knelt before him and gave back that Which they had taken from The Holy City.