A celebration of the rich history of the Anglo-Saxons, both in the Homeland and the Diaspora.

VERSE 1:

With the fall of Rome’s empire comes the advance of a new nation

Of Angle, Saxon, and Jute joined, tribes of the North Sea migration

They’ve made Logres land their home, with Briton blood they’ve mixed

It’s a story of centuries, the story of the English

Bridge:

The blood of our people… blood of our name

Blood of our people… blood of our name

Westward they sailed through North Sea, British lords need men for hire

Advanced on the breast of Britannia, Albion’s seed to sire

The Word came forth, a symbol, the blazing Cross of Christ

Yet in our blood we remember the runes, and the magic of solar device

Æthelstan presenting gospel to St. Cuthbert

Repeat Bridge

CHORUS:

Sons and daughters of Anglo-Saxon Nation,

Britannia, she calls to you

Heirs of Britons and North Sea Migration,

The test of history you must prove 

God of Fathers, grant us strength

To crush the Normans, Danes, and Franks

God of Fathers, grant us strength

To crush the Normans, Danes, and Franks

Alfred the Great

VERSE 2:

Alfred King of Wessex stood alone against the Danes

Their ferocity could not prevail against his ealdormen and thanes

England divided by Danelaw, England united by foe,

Take the Thames and re-found London, watch the kingdom grow

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Repeat CHORUS

The Battle of Stamford Bridge

VERSE 3:

A fateful year, 1066, a year of war and woe

King Harold Godwinson at the Stamford Bridge put paid to the Norway foe

With treacherous Tostig defeated, only William still loomed large

At Hastings we advanced, could not stop the Norman charge

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Repeat CHORUS

Merry-Joseph Blondel–“Richard Couer de Leon”

VERSE 4:

By Norman yoke our nation was chained to Frankish demesne

Contended with the Capetian kings, for territory they had claimed

Fought and bled for Angevin ambition till Anjou had been lost

Carried Cross of Christ in Holy Crusades—salvation, but at what cost?

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Repeat CHORUS

John Smith (Historic Jamestown, VA)

VERSE 5:

Exploration, New World age, once more west the ships set sail

To verdant Virginia they came, made a plantation in Plymouth soil

Thirteen lands sought liberty, after French were put to flight

Washington our Father led Continental Army to crush the royal might

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Repeat CHORUS

Howard Chandler Christy–“Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States”

VERSE 6:

The modern world we created, an age of decadence and hysteria

Zealous and anxious we despise our fathers, and liberty dies in America

A plague of guilt and madness, tell me what it could all mean

Is this the end of Albion’s line—will our people ever be redeemed?

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We’re the Atlantic Anglo-Saxon folk,

We’re Albion’s sons, breakers of yolks,

Though our nation suffers in ignominy

By blood of our people, we shall be free!

Repeat CHORUS

Second CHORUS:

Sons and daughters of Anglo-Saxon Nation,

America calls to you

Albion’s seed of Atlantic Migration,

The test of history you must prove 

God of Fathers, grant us strength

To crush the weakness in our ranks

God of Fathers, grant us Your strength

Crush the weakness in our ranks

(c)Michael R. Schultheiss–2021