Music and lyrics by J Stephen Roberts

 

Church on a hill in a grove below skies gray

Lay the sword at the altar, kneel and pray

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Faith is that a soul black with sin

Can be restored

But what penance could ever cleanse the Christian blood

That stains this sword?

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Brothers all around as I kneel and the oath is sworn

Clad in the mantle and the spurs I am reborn

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The burdens of the Devil’s rule

No more upon me lay

And the sword that once carved my path to hell

Will guard the pilgrim’s way