Song of the Week – Song of the Men’s Side
This week’s song is another Kipling / Fish piece, Song of the Men’s Side. The poem was printed in 1910 in Kipling’s collection “Rewards and Fairies.” I believe the reference to the “magic knife” refers to the story of Tyr bringing fire to humankind.
Leslie has put quite a number of Kipling poems to music. I would encourage you to go to the Random Factors site or Leslie’s site and get some of them. I think she did an excellent job of putting music to the words and, of course, no one sings quite like Leslie.
Again I would mention that, although this audio file is Creative Commons licensed and the Kipling poetry is in the Public Domain in the United States, the music is Copyright 1987 by Leslie Fish, assigned to Random Factors. Leslie’s albums “Cold Iron” and “Our Fathers of Old” as well as many other recordings are available through her publisher, Random Factors at http://www.random-factors.com/ or on Leslie’s site at http://www.lesliefish.com/.
Song of the Men’s Side – Lyrics
Song of the Men’s Side by Glen E Hammer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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Not a Bard 