Mason Jennings - Rudy

Lyrics

I was standing by the village gates when I first heard the news

The king had sent his men to seize Gabriel's land

And when Gabriel he refused, the men took both his daughters

And cut the wedding ring fingers from their hands

The next three days I heard three times separate similar stories

The king was taking what was ours for his own

Deep, deep down in the pit of my chest my fear turned to fury

When I thought about my family and my home

Good kind Rudy stood before the king

His mighty sword in his hand

All through the valley we could hear him swing

And a joyful cheer filled the land

Nobody's ever gonna treat us like that again

Late that night all the men in the village

gathered in a clearing in the forest

And we elected Good Rudy to lead us now

He decided right away that the king must die

Every head bent forward as he told us how

We split up into two large groups

and headed for the castle on the hill

My group stormed the front, all the guards came running

Rudy's group snuck up from the back and laid

their ladders up against the castle walls

Nobody ever saw them coming

Good kind Rudy stood before the king

His mighty sword in his hand

All through the valley we could hear him swing

And a joyful cheer filled the land

Good kind Rudy stood before the king

His mighty sword in his hand

All through the valley we could hear him swing

And a joyful cheer filled the land

Nobody's ever gonna treat us like that again