One Rode To Asa Bay Lyrics - Mystic Circle

[music and lyrics by Quorthon, Originally performed by Bathory] 

One man rode the way through the woods 

Down to Asa bay 

Where dragon ships had sailed to sea 

More times than one could say 

To see with own eyes the wonder 

People told of from man to man 

The God of all almightyness 

Had arrived from a foreign land 

The rumours told of a man 

Who had come from the other side the seas 

Carrying gold cross around neck in chain 

And spoke in strange tongue of peace 

He had come with strange men in armour 

Dressed in purple shirts and lace 

Smelling not of beer but flowers 

And with no hair in face 

And the bold man carrying cross 

Had told all one of Asa bay 

The God of all man woman child had come 

To them all save 

And to thank Lord of Heaven 

One should build to God a house 

And to save one's soul from Hell 

One should be baptised and say vows 

A man of pride with the Hammer told new God 

To build his house on own 

And spoke loud of the Gods of their fathers 

Not too long time gone 

The rumours said the man with a beard like fire 

And the Hammer in chain 

By men in armour silenced was and by 

Their swords was slain 

Those who did not pay the one coin 

Of four to man of new God 

Whipped was twenty and put in chains then locked 

By their neck to the log (To the log...) 

And so all of Asa bay did build 

A house of the cross 

Every hour of daylight they did sweat 

Limbs ached because faith does cost 

And on the day two hundred 

There it stood white to the sky 

The house of the God of the cross 

Big enough to take two dragon ships inside 

And all of Asa bay did watch 

The wonder raise to the sky 

Now must the God of the cross be pleased 

And satisfied 

Just outside the circle of the crowd 

One old man did stand 

He looked across the waters 

And blotted the sun out of his eyes with one hand 

And his old eyes could almost see 

The dragon ships set sail 

And his old ears could almost hear 

Men of great numbers call out Oden's hail 

And though he did know already 

Though he turned face towards sky 

And whispered silent words forgotten 

Spoken only way up high 

Now this house of a foreign God does stand 

Now must they leave us alone 

Still he heard from somewhere in the woods 

Old crow of wisdom say 

...people of Asa land, it's only just begun...