BATTLE HYMNS 1982
 

     "DEATH TONE" (R. Friedman/ J. DeMaio)

     Ridin' on to wheels
     Chainsuit on my heels
     Sittin' on leather
     Ridin' on steel

     Put my shades on
     Hair blows in the wind
     I give some square the finger
     Now he won't look again, no he won't

     PreChorus:
     Now, you were sittin'
     And I got sent to Nam
     I give some square the finger
     You just worked at job

     Chorus:
     Hear me calling
     Can't you hear my death tone
     Hear me calling
     Can't you hear my death tone
     Hear me ride
     On into the night
     Pull along side
     If you're looking for a fight

     My social workers
     Got me on a chain
     Keeps me out of jail
     So the paper prints his name,
     Yes it does, and he likes it

     Unemployment checks
     Run out next week
     It won't be very long
     'Til I'm back on the streets again

     PreChorus:
     Now, you were sittin' home
     And I was sent to Nam
     I wen't through the big house
     You just worked at job

     Chorus

     Death tone
     Death tone
     Gonna ride on my death tone
     Yes I am
     I'm gonna ride on my death tone
 

     "METAL DAZE" (J. DeMaio)

     I hear the sound in a metal way
     I feel the power rolling out of stage
     'Cos only one thing really sets me free
     Heavy metal loud as it can be

     Baby I was born to play music
     I am a man with a screamy guitar
     There's a light in a middle of a stage
     In a minute I'm wearing me on
     I don't know another way of living
     Baby I don't really care
     Give me a pair of chains, aim the whiplash at me
     The girls I'd love to share

     Chorus:
     Heavy metal, metal daze
     Heavy metal, heavy metal daze
     Heavy metal, heavy metal daze

     Living like there's no tomorrow
     Yeah, I could resist all on the edge
     This is: Man you really graft it
     This band: A social waste
     Well, we all got arms made of metal
     And our glories are no deblock
     And if I drown in a sound of metal
     I'd go to shock

     Chorus

     So mister d. j. play just one for me
     You know the one with the crash and the screams
     'cos only one thing really sets me free
     Heavy metal loud as it can be

     Chorus

     Loud as it can be

       "FAST TAKER" (R. Friedman/J. DeMaio)

     Mama said me status always come to me
     Your daddy said that drink is is not yours for the free
     You tell i'm a looser 'cause i like em breed
     But truth is in the mirror is one thing never seen

     I sing Yeah

     Long time ago you tried to tell me son
     People tried to hold on i said no no, no no
     No i don't mind them saying
     Like you should be praying
     For me, fast taker right here's where i'm staying
     Life's a game i play
     For peace, fast taker, fast taker, fast taker
     Take it away

     Only sixteen for more than kind a girl
     Old enough for a trip around the world
     Take you up when daddy when daddy goes to sleep
     Bring you back at sunday when his possibly grandma's on T.V.

     Oh yaeh, he won't see me

     Now do it right with music feat to them abuse it
     All night, fast taker
     Right here's where I'm staying
     Life's a game I play
     For peace, fast taker, fast taker, fast taker
     Take it away
 
     "SHELL SHOCK" (R. Friedman/J. DeMaio)

     I don't know

     Well, there's no charge for the haircut
     And the bullets come free
     My little samson leather set
     Got a mission for me

     Now I'm a ranger, not a stranger
     And I live in Saigon
     We got a team of special forces
     And we believe in Napalm

     But if they tell you that I have lost my mind
     Baby it's not gone just a little hard to find
     About the time this leather I'd been sold
     I'd be gone, yeah gone

     And if they tell you that I'm F.E.A.
     Think a little less about me each day
     Cause if I ever get back
     I'll be shell shocked, whoa
     Shell shocked, yeah

     Feels funny riding in my car
     Used to drive a tank and shoot a B.A.R.
     I know I'm home
     But I feel gone, yeah gone

     Now it's over and the homeland's safe
     Got a purple heart to show the world I'm brave
     The business mans at home
     Well I got shell shocked, whoa
     Shell shocked, whoa

     "MANOWAR" (R. Friedman/J. DeMaio)

     We met on English ground  in a backstage room
     We heard the sound what we had to do

     We called the high command questedly to make a stand
     And in the field we grew and we all knew

     Soon the time will come for us to fight
     Destination now in sight
     Aaah, Manowar born to live forever more
     Right to conquer every shore
     Hold your ground and give no more

     Our fight will never end
     So we called our party sense
     To raise your hand
     And take our stand

     Look sharp when duty calls
     Where we march cities fall
     And the strong survives
     And take our side

     Now the time has come for us to fight
     Target waiting in our sight
     Aaah, Manowar
     Born to live forever more
     Right to conquer every shore
     Hold your ground and give no more
 
     Aaah, Manowar
     Born to live forever more
     Right to conquer every shore
     Aaah, Manowar

     "DARK AVENGER"  (R. Friedman/J. Demaio)
     (narration:Orson Welles)

     He broke the Laws of the elder
     So they blocked out his eye
     Took his land and fortune
     Left him to die

     Bound on the shoreline
     Left for the tide
     Sees life blood fleeding
     Circuling lower the vultures fly
 
     The bones may be broken
     But the spirit can't die
     And the Gods sees his anguish
     And give him a sign

     From the floor of the ocean
     The ship of the Lost souls arise
     And they take him away, where no one sleeps when the undead cry
     Where no one sleeps when the undead cry

     And in the world above the elders sing
     On his land they live let death bell ring

Narration:
          He was met at the gate of Hades
          At the Guardian of the Lost Souls
          The Keeper of the Unavenged
          And He did say to him:
          "Let him not pass
          Abaddon
          But return to the world
          From whence he came
          And seek payment
          Not only for thine own anguish
          But vindicate the souls
          of The Unavenged"

          And they placed to his hand
          A sword
          Made for him
          Called: Vengeance
          Forged in brimstone
          And tempered
          By the woeful tears of the Unavenged
          And to carry him upon on his journey
          Back to the upper world
          They brought forth
          Their Demon horse
          Called: Black Death
          A grim steed
          So fierce in might
          And black in colour
          That he could stand as one in darkness
          Safe from his burning eyes
          In crimson fire
          And that night
          They rode up from Hell
          The pounding from his hoofs
          Did clap like thunder !

     Chorus:
       Burning, death, destruction
       Raping the daughters and wives
       In blood I take my payment
       In full with they lives

     No one can escape me
     On Black Death I ride
     When kissed by the sword of Vengeance
     Your head lays there by your side
     I take the lives of all that I once knew
     A torn flesh of a slow death waits for you

    Chorus

     I spare that land of servants
     My wake is slow death
     I take their wives and daughters
     They stand there watching, watching
     Hoping to buy their lives
     But when I'm through they know they must pay

    Chorus

     "WILLIAM'S TALE"
      (Rossini)
 
     "BATTLE HYMNS" (R. Friedman/J. DeMaio)

     By moonlight we ride
     Tenthousand side by side

     With swords drawn held high
     Our whips and armours shine
     Hail to me our infantry
     Still brave beyond the grave
     All sworn the eternal vow
     The time to strike is now

    Chorus:
       Kill, kill
       Kill, kill

     Gone are the days when freedom shone
     Now blood and steel meet bone
     In the light of the battles way
     The signs of a time will shade
     Half proud our soldiers stand
     With mace and chain in hand
     Sound the charge into glory ride
     Over the top of the anguished pride

    Chorus:
       Victory, victory
       Victory, victory

     To the battle we ride
     We crossed a starlit sky
     No space no time
     We'll catch the wind
     Strange losses men died
     We crossed a stralit sky
     And still no space or time
     We'll catch the wind

    Chorus

     By moonlight we ride
     Tenthousand side by side

    Chorus