The Champion
 

The champion fights for the lady, it is his only way
He asks not for the lady’s love, just that she smile his way
But deep inside his lonely heart he prays on day by day
That the lady loves him as he loves her, and bids her champion stay

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For the champion he is brave
And the champion he is bold
He fights for the lady’s honor
Never for the gold
He asks not the lady
For her hand for he would not be so bold
For that’s not the way of a champion
Or so I have been told

As the champion turns to grey there’ll come a younger man
Who enters into the lady’s heart and asks for her hand
She’ll ask her champion “my friend do you mind if I wed this man?”
He’ll avert his eyes and say your happiness is all I can demand.

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The champion stands off to the side he never says a word
And though he loves the lady so, his heart is never heard
The champion resigns himself to a love which will ne’er be cured
As the lady takes herself a lord, the champion’s eyes are blurred.

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