tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 09 14:15:03 1997
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Re: The Warrior's Anthem (lyrics)
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: The Warrior's Anthem (lyrics)
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 17:08:56 -0500 (EST)
At 10:44 PM 08/12/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hey thanks! I was going crazy trying to understand it!
>Sorry for taking long to resopnd but I didn't notice the post immediately
>since it had changed subject.
>Thanks again.
>BTW - you wouldn't also have the lyrics for the song sung the toq and the
>other Klingon kept as prisinors by the Romulans in one of the TNG episodes.
>I'm not sure what it was called. Was it something like Birthright or Sins of
>the Father. Someting of the sore I think.
The episode you're talking about is Birthright, and I was also looking for
those lyrics.
Queequeg (hahaha)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[email protected]>
>Date: Friday, 05 December , 1997 10:52
>Subject: The Warrior's Anthem (lyrics)
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>>On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Etienne Bonanno wrote:
>>
>>|Please! Tell me where to find the lyrics of this song! I've been trying to
>>|make sense of what the actors on the Klingon CD-ROM where saying for ages
>>|but all I managed to understand were the first couple of sentences!
>>
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>> WARRIOR'S ANTHEM
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>>This song first appeared in the Klingon CD-ROM and was later sung twice in
>>the DS9 episode "Soldiers of the Empire." The lyrics (in both languages,
>>including the trot) were published by Simon and Schuster on the SimonSays
>>Trek books web page as part of the promotional campaign for the Klingon
>>"Day of Honor" series of novels.
>>
>> Qoy qeylIs puqloD.
>> Qoy puqbe'pu'.
>> yoHbogh matlhbogh je SuvwI'
>> Say'moHchu' may' 'Iw.
>> maSuv manong 'ej maHoHchu'.
>> nI'be' yInmaj 'ach wovqu'.
>> batlh maHeghbej 'ej yo' qIjDaq vavpu'ma' DImuv.
>> pa' reH maSuvtaHqu'.
>> mamevQo'. maSuvtaH. ma'ov.
>>
>>Hilary Bader's original lyrics, c1997:
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>> Hear! Sons of Kahless.
>> Hear! Daughters too.
>> The blood of battle washes clean.
>> The Warrior brave and true.
>> We fight, we love, and then we kill.
>> Our lives burn short and bright.
>> Then we die with honor and join our fathers in the Black Fleet where
>> we battle forever, battling on through the Eternal fight.
>>
>>Literal translation:
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>> Hear! sons of Kahless.
>> Hear! daughters.
>> The battle blood perfectly cleans the warrior who is brave and loyal.
>> We fight, we're passionate, and we kill perfectly.
>> Our lives are not long, but they're very bright.
>> We certainly die, and we join our fathers in the black fleet.
>> There we always really continue fighting.
>> We won't stop. We continue fighting. We compete.
>>
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>>
>> - Voragh
>> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.