Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Boogie Knights

We all just love knights, right?  That certainly is evidenced in the number of songs about them.  To wit:

Boogie Knights - a happy-go-lucky group.  This is what Dorothy Dunnett wanted to call one of her Lymond Chronicle novels, but it was already taken, so she settled on Disorderly Knights.  Just doesn't have the same je ne sais quoi, though, does it?

Silent Knight - did not hang with the Boogie Knights much.  neither did the knight addressed in O Holy Knight.

December 1293 (Oh, What A Knight) - legend has it that the famous minstrel, Blondel, wrote this about Richard the Lionhearted.

Even The Knights Are Better - this song was penned during the rivalry between the knights Hospitaler and the Knights Templar.  The king of France put an end to that... and the Templars.

Mid-knight at the Oasis - a basic training song for Saracen swordsmen, describing where the sword should be directed.  Another from this source, All Through the Knight, not to mention Help Me Make It Through the Knight.

Saturday Knight's All Right for Fighting - a novelty song about a well known knight who tended to drink heavily on the weekends.

Still of the Knight - no doubt belonging to the fellow who supplied Saturday knight's refreshments.

Tender Is The Knight - a love song.

A Hard Day's Knight - battle can take a lot out of a fellow.

Knightswimming - a bittersweet ballad about Holy Roman Emperorr Frederick Barbarossa's death.

Knight Moves - here's a training ditty for squires.

Knight Time is the Right Time - a send up of the Age of Chivalry.

Surely you can add to this list?  Yes, but please don't call you Sir Shirley.

4 comments:

  1. Ah, sure and there's Burton's "One thousand and One Arabian Knights". An elite unit in the Saracen military ...

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  2. And of course, there's Knighty-Knight, the redundant.

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  3. And then, there's the comment made by one damsel to another, "Good Knight, Irene! "

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  4. Let's Spend the Knight Together - a lesson in chivalrous generosity?

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