Late are the hours upon the last day of the year, and the people of Bancross have found their way into Duncadda’s barn to celebrate. From the outside of the barn, a mixture of loud chanting and singing can be heard, forming a strange rhythmic song...
With several instruments playing in the background, a manly voice starts chanting…
Bancross, Rohirrim Setting
But the hamlet don’t know what visitors it’s getting
The best of the best, the mark has to offer
in a place with everything but a king's daughter.
Time flies - doesn’t seem a minute
since the rohan mark had the dunlendings in it
All changed, don’t you know that when you
drink at this hamlet there’s no ordinary venue.
It's mead hall, or the garrison, or Bryn’s house or…. or this barn!
♪ One night in Bancross and the world’s your border
♪ The barns are taverns but their mead ain’t free
♪ You’ll find a stout in every dusty corner
♪ And if you’re unlucky, then the mead is on thee
♪ I can feel a barrel rolling up to me
One hamlet’s very like another,
when your head’s looking over the horizon, brother.
♪ It’s a drag, it’s a bore, it’s really a pity
♪ to be looking at the land, not looking at the hamlet
What do you mean? Ya seen one sleepy, dusty, boring hamlet
♪ Wine, maids, warm and sweet
♪ some are bathing nude up in the Bancross lake.
Get lost, your talking to a resident
Whose every move’s among the purest
I get my kicks from a strong mead, sunshine!
♪ One night in Bancross makes a hard rider humble
♪ Not much between defeat and victory
♪ One night in Bancross and the tough riders tumble
♪ Can’t be too careful with your company
♪ I can feel a shieldmaiden walking next to me
the singing stops and are replaced with drumming and a sweet flute tune…
before the chanting resumes.
Eorl’s gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of fighting fitness
this grips me more than riding a barrel or reclining Ainulindale
Thank Bema I’m attending the fight, controlling it
I don’t see you guys riding
The kind of fighting I’m contemplating
I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the mare’s we use would only frighten you.
So, you better go back to your halls, your forests,
your second breakfasts …
♪ One night in Bancross and the world’s your border
♪ The barns are taverns but their mead ain’t free
♪ You’ll find a stout in every dusty corner
♪ And if you’re unlucky, then the mead is on thee
♪ I can feel a barrel rolling up to me
♪ One night in Bancross makes a hard rider humble
♪ Not much between defeat and victory
♪ One night in Bancross and the tough riders tumble
♪ Can’t be too careful with your company
♪ I can feel a shieldmaiden walking next to me
The lyrical credits goes to Murray Head, who wrote and produced the song One Night In Bangkok, which I have rewritten somewhat to fit the Rohan scene. The banner is made of several screenshots from the game, taken and edited by me.
For those who do not know, but the Bancross is the name of the Rohan homestead my character and my Rohan role playing friends call our home in the game. Please come visit if you have time, it is an amazing place, lovely decorated to fit the Rohan lore.
