Heralds, Harpers & Havoc 03 Threes (Take 2)
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2010
- from Heralds, Harpers & Havoc by Mercedes Lackey
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This is an extended version of "Threes" with more verses, but sadly, without Julia's voice. 
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Lyrics to the song:
Deep into the stony hills
Miles from town or hold
A troop of guards comes riding
With a lady and her gold
She rides bemused among them
Shrouded in her cloak of fur
Companioned by a maiden
And a toothless age-ed cur
Three things see not end
A flower blighted ere it bloom
A message that miscarries
And a journey that is doomed
One among the guardsmen
Has a shifting restless eye
And as they ride he scans the hills
That rise against the skies
He wears both sword and jewels
Worth more than he could afford
And hidden in his baggage
Is a heavy secret hoard
Of three things be wary of
A feather on a cat
The shepherd eating mutton
And the guardsman that is fat
Little does the lady care
What all the guardsmen know
That bandits ambush caravans
That on these trade roads go
In spite of tricks and clever traps
And all that men can do
The brigands seem to always sense
Which trains are false or true
Three things are most perilous
The shape that walks behind
The ice that will not hold you
And the spy you cannot find
From ambush bandits screaming
Charge the pack train and it's prize
And all but four within the train
Are taken by surprise
And all but four are cut down
As a woodsman fells a log
The guardsmen and the lady
And the maiden and the dog
Three things hold a secret
Lady riding in a dream
The dog that sounds no warning
And the maid who does not scream
Then off the lady pulls her cloak
In armor she is clad
Her sword is out and ready and
Her eyes are fierce and glad
The maiden makes a gesture and
The dog's a cur no more
A wolf, swordmaiden and sorceress
Now face the bandit horde
Three things never anger
Or you will not live for long
A wolf with cubs
A man with power
And a woman's sense of wrong
The lady and her sister
By a single trader lone
Were hired out to try to lay
A trap all of their own
And no one knew their plan except
The two who rode that day
For what you do not know
You cannot ever give away
Three things is it's better part
That only two should know
Where treasure hides, who shares your bed
And how to catch your foe
The bandits growl a challenge
And the lady only grins
The sorceress bows mockingly
And them the fight begins
When it ends there's only four
Left standing from the horde
The witch, the wolf, the traitor
And the woman with the sword
Three things never trust in
A maiden sworn as pure
The vows a kings has given
And the ambush that is sure
They strip the traitor naked
And then whip him on his way
Into the barren hill sides like
The folk he used to slay
And what of all the maidens
That this bandit raped and slew
So as revenge the sorceress
Makes him a woman too
Three things trust above all else
The horse on which you ride
The beast that guards your sleeping
And the shield mate at your side
+Edison Trent A toothless AGED cur... not sated! Not easy to eat with no teeth! :)
Are you sure? It really sounds like sated.
It could be meaning a content and dopey acting dog, one that's being lazy. My dog acts like that all the time.
Yeah, I just listened to it at full blast, you can clearly hear the s, t and d of "sated". A "g" would really stand out in that.
"A wolf, swordmaiden and sorceress" I think this is just "A wolf, SwordMAID and sorceress", though I may be wrong
"And hidden in his baggage // Is a heavy secret horde"
I am pretty sure the traitor guardsman does not have a large group of people (or tribe warriors) in his baggage, no matter how heavy the baggage is. A store of valuable stuff (or money) hidden in his baggage -- a hoard -- fits the traitor guardsman much more.
(see en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/horde vs. en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hoard )
I do think this is the superior version.
Ow! Hey! Who just zapped me?!
Have you heard ruclips.net/video/6fQixsAaUQ4/видео.html ?
j/k I too like this best.
Take 3 is the best version.
@@paulthetyyppi naw, it's rev. 1.1, obviously
@@candiman4243 I vote for this one.
It took hearing this through a few times before I realised it's the sorceress, not the woman with the sword, who makes the traitor a woman. Seems much less of a punishment now.
Hee?
Ho...
*HOOOOOO* 😰
He now has to live as a woman, and survive as one. And claiming he was once a man is likely to make him sound a bit mad - which will probably get him worse treatment. Just my thoughts on the matter.
Kethry (The Sorceress) did A LOT more than just make the traitor a woman. She placed a magical illusion on him and tied it to his own ability which use to make himself appear as someone who you trusted so long as they were alive and not in the area, but would now make him appear as a woman. He is then tied to a horse and sent after his fellow bandits who previously raped and killed several women and girls. He himself is raped repeatedly and gets so desperate to lift the illusion that he begs help from a powerful demon. The demon "helps" him by completely turning the traitor into a woman and enthralling him to serve the demon.
@@La-Volpa Oh fuck, yeah that's certainly a punishment.
Great song, this is my favorite version!!
With a man singing this, it really sounds like that bard that wrote the song in the book...Tarma and Kethry would be pissed though
Oh yes. This is the version that spread to Valdemar.
@@darrenhenley2258 Better than version 3... ruclips.net/video/9ZOKetnE7j0/видео.html
actually, they would like this one better. it mentions that they were there because they were hired.
@@guinevereeastes8519 This one mentions it too. The other one is more gruesome and changes who is the sorcerer and the fighter. In this one the lady on the horse is the fighter and the maiden the sorceress. The other one it's the other way around. Not sure which it is in the book, so which would be more accurate in that regard.
This one has it backwards. Kethry (sorceress) was the lady, Tarma (swordswoman) was the maid. They even complain about it, among other mistakes, in one of the later chapters.
Whoa! I heard the version from Horse Tamer's Daughter, now this, and I can't decide which I like more :)
For me, it's this one! The punishment for the traitor is definitely more fun here :p
Though his return and the drama with that demon who’s name I can’t remember was rather sad, I was biting my nails the whole time
I think it's funniest in "Threes: Take 3" (there sure are a lot of versions of this song)
"The witch decides what shape the traitor's punishment will be
(Her positive self-image is revealed for all to see!)
The worst thing she can think of's not a newt or bat or toad
She turns him into a woman and then sets him on the road"
For me, this will always be the definitive version.,
Love listening to Larry sing this.
Should be Larry Dixon.
"Sorry, neither" said Brienne...
Could'nt resist the ST-GoT mashup ^_^
put Threes Mercedes Lackey in the search bar up top the version with lyrics will be the first one
Alright Mr. Zoat....you brought me here.
And to The Sun is also a Warrior.
I came across them years ago, when I was reading the Valdemar series last decade. I should give it a reread this decade too.
okay who is mr zoat? anyone who uses this song has prolyl gotten some itnerresting content :^)
Zoat is the pseudonym of a British man who writes With This Ring.
Basically, a guy (specifically a version of the writer set just before he planned to write the fiction and lacking the knowledge of Young Justice) appears on the Moon above Earth while wearing an Orange Power Ring (similar to a Green Power Ring owned by the Green Lanterns but using Avarice rather than Willpower).
The universe he is in is Young Justice the tv show and a lot of other DC Comics stuff.
Forgot to link.
This is the Story-Only, you can probably get to the discussion from there using his signature at the end of each story post. The discussion would have people’s comments.
forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-story-only.25076/
Alas, the purchase option is a 404 now.
Larry Warner, Kristoph Klover, Frank Hayes, Bill Roper, and Dominic Bridwell are all listed as performers on the official disc, but which - if any, because I don't know if this is the disc version - sang this?
It sounds like Kristoph Klover to me, but I'm hardly an expert.
Another version, from the description it might (or not) be the original. It's sung by Julia Ecklar, w/ full lyrics in the description. I was curious so I searched for "threes song filk" and found this one...
ruclips.net/video/i-AkrYewQiU/видео.html
I have heard there is a book with this story in it. I thought that I have read ALL of these books, but do not recall 'this' story in any form but song. Please enlighten this old woman who can't find her glasses half the time, and sadly forgets wonderful written stories. Which book is the tale located? Thank you
Its one of the ones with Tarma and Kethry, so its Oathbound, Oathbreaker or Oathblood. However, I do not know exactly which one it is.
I don't know either, but I think it is the first Tarma and Kethrey book.
This story is told in Oathbound! Although from what I've heard, Lackey wrote this song first and then only later wrote the story of how it all "really" happened
Wait this is a book?
Welp time to buy it 7u7
it's in both oathbound and oathblood.
Is this Vic Tyler singing? Or Michael Longcor? Seriously thinking it's Tyler.
too bad this CD isn't available anymore. My copy was lost in moving, and I'm not able to replace it.
Good reason for me not to ever move...
Do you still want the lyrics or did you get them?
Toss a con to your witcher can eat shit, this is class with a capital C
If not Julia, then who?
Well, Weyrd,
Who sang this anyway, like which band is behind the vocals?
I believe it's Larry Warner, I may be mistaken though.
@@DarkTrooper458 Oh my god iu didnt see this comment.
Ill check it up soon TM
youtube's "topic" system attributes it to round worm/ bob kanefsky, didnt listen to it, seems to be a different one tho
I thought this what about 40k
There's also a parody, but unfortunately I can't understand the lyrics as I'm french and it's sung too fast for me, I'll need a number of hearings to grok all the puns and fun... but I'm currently listening to all the versions I find ^-^
ruclips.net/video/6fQixsAaUQ4/видео.html
Ring, Make cake.
Compliance.
Why does it say jewels instead of bracelets. Bracelet sounds so much better!
Snoozinghamster No, that wouldn't.
In my opinion it sound better with bracelets like in take one whereas jewels always sounds as though it is being stretched to fill the gap.
They both have the exact same metre...
Jew-els
Brace-lets
Learn to poetry.
I'm not trying to get into an argument about poetry! I just think it weird how the words where changed from both the book and the other version of this song to something which does feel more strained in my opinion. Going from a word which is two syllable - bracelet to one which is one syllable- jewels
"Going from a word which is two syllable - bracelet to one which is one syllable- jewels"
Jewel is two syllables. Pronounced joo-uhl.
If you don't even know what you're talking about, please stop.
By the way, if you are ever talking about the metre of a song, then you are talking about the metre of the poem that is then set to music.
All songs are poetry with musical accompaniment. That's how music was invented.
so..... is there any reason the the warrior and the sorcerous didn't try to save the that didn't betray them? seems like a dick move to me.
Jo_Tunn they didn't know who the traitor was and the only way to figure out who betrayed the rest was to see who the bandits left standing after their attack.
so yeah, a dick move. and that's probably putting it mildly.
Jo_Tunn no it wasn't if they didn't find out who thr traitor was then people would have kept dying. The sacrifice of the few for the many.
did they even try investigating or did they go straight to the kill them all and the gods sort it out plan?
Jo_Tunn Of course they did.
Q-ships be like ^-^