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LMAO................ ridiculous.......... can u imagine our LP singing while they're marching.......... "all our friends are dead........... to our own deaths we do tread......."

That's a fun idea, actually. If we really roleplay the journey out, you'll have to give us a song!

I do rather like the idea of marching songs--in terms of stuff from the books, there's always something like "Laddie Buck" (from High Rhulain, I think?) or "Lairo Lairo" from The Long Patrol.

"As I marched out one sunny day,
O lairo lairo lay!
I met a hare upon the way,
O lairo lairo laydee!
With ears like silk, and eyes so brown,
And fur as soft as thistledown,
She smiled at me an' that was that,
My poor young heart went pitter pat!

O pitter pat an' eyes of brown,
She looked me up an' looked me down,
I ask you now, what could I do,
I said, 'Please, may I walk with you?'
We walked together all that day,
O lairo lairo lay!
As laughingly I heard her say,
O lairo lairo laydee!

'Pray tell to me, O brave young sir,
Are you a wild an' perilous hare
Who thinks of nought from morn 'til night
But march an' sing an' charge an' fight?'
O march an' sing, O perilous hare,
So I said to this creature fair,
'To march an' fight is my intent,
The Long Patrol's my regiment!'

And then upon that sunny day,
O lairo lairo lay!
She turned from me an' skipped away,
O lairo lairo laydee!
She said, 'I fear that we must part,
Sir, I would not give you my heart,
That Long Patrol, alas alack,
Those hares march off an' ne'er come back!'

O ne'er come back an' Long Patrol,
While rivers flow an' hills do roll,
I'll march along my merry way,
An' look for pretty hares each day!"

--- Brian Jaques, The Long Patrol

I've been listening to that song all day. I happened to have one of my copies of The Long Patrol with me and found the words. 'tis a good song.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbZ_FVetj_o

what a sweet song