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60 lines
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GRENDEL
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-Kathy Mar
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-Leslie Fish
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(copyright date unknown)
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Dumb as dirt and twice as mean, such a son makes mother crazy
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Foul as sewers I have seen, ugly, loutish, large and lazy
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That's the child I've had to raise, what's a Mom to do?
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Drag him to our ocean cave, and stay to watch him too.
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Son of mine, you've been a disappointment since your birth
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Now I've got to bury you in this cold northern earth
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I know you would be sorry if you weren't so very dead
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But you never listened to a word I said.
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Everybody's got to rest, even I get tired and sleepy
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Sonny left our little nest on errands cruel and creepy
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Came back with a haunch of Man gnawed down to the bone
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Left each night from that day on, while I slept like a stone
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Vikings gathered in their hall, heroes all in war delighting
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When my Grendel came to call he was met with mighty fighting
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One among them took his arm, ripped it off for good
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Chased him to our ocean home and killed him where he stood
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When I found my wine was spiked, it was far too late to aid him
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Though there wasn't much I liked, I was often glad I'd made him
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So I must avenge him now, what's a Mom to do?
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If he was yours anyhow, I bet that you would too
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GRENDEL (part two)
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-Skald-Brandr Toralfsson
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Backhand blows and trust betrayed, teach a son to love his mother
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Cursed be he and she that made, less a man than something other
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Hellbent have I been since birth, damned for father's sin
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Hating all I stalk this earth, leave havoc where I've been
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Mother, dear, I know I disappoint you, I don't care
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All I have to thank you for are long years of despair
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You tell me that you love me now that my poor life is done
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but I don't believe you'll miss me when I'm gone
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Mother snores while Grendel creeps out for sport and bellyfilling
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Hunting rabbits in their sleeps, such as they were made for killing
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I the one to teach them fear, I the one to slay
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Satan's laughter echoes near when Grendel goes to play
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"Save us, dear Lord, from this Beast," the Danes cried out, a hero came
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I went to join them in their feast and learned the bitter taste of shame
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I howled to shatter Heaven's walls, shrieked so Hell could hear
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Told all creation with my calls my mortal end was near
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Now at last my breath is gone, Mother, it's too late to chasten
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Let me lie till death comes on, then away to Hell I'll hasten
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Heaven's road is hidden from the likes of you or me
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I'll go when I'm bidden "come", but I will wait for thee...
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