X: 71
T: Swordsman of the Sky [clarinet] (3:55)
C: The Lonely Mountain Band
Z: Astleigh Mondegreen
L: 1/8
Q: 180
K: C#minor

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% I met a traveller upon the Greenway road
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% One night, on the way to Bree
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% From under hooded cloak, glowing ember and his pipe smoke
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% He called and hailed to me
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% Just then the dusk-wolf howled and I feared brigands on the road
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% And he looked fair enough to me
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% So I drew my pony up, and I asked the rider his name
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% This is what he said to me:
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% I'm just a minstrel with a wandering horse
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% Not all who wander are always lost
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% I follow those stars there you see on high
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% That's the Swordsman of the Sky
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% See war is coming on these gentle lands
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% Long is the reach of dark hands
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% I've come to warn your folk, these roads will soon be weary
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% Beneath marching boots of evil enemies
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% The stranger's warspeech kindled dread in my soul
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% Like the burning embers in his pipe-bowl
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% Something in his voice, like a call to fate
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% I asked him if it was too late
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% To warn of what will be, can our folk remain free
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% This is what he said to me:
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% I'm just a minstrel with a wandering horse
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% Not all who wander are always lost
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% I can sing to you a great prophecy
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% From beyond the Western Seas
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% But stand fast, defend the people free
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% The last battle is yet to be
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% I sing of hope in the shining belts on high
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% Seek the Swordsman of the Sky
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