Gloranthan songs: The Saffron and the Blue

Better known in the RW as "The Scarlet and the Blue". Yelmalians of course aren't too keen on scarlet, but they do like yellow.

The song is traditional, and words have changed over the centuries for each army and livery. This version of the words started with that from "The Yetties Songbook", and was changed to fit the Sun Dome in Prax.

Oh I once was a merry plough-boy, a-ploughing in the fields all day
When a funny thought came to my mind that I should go away
For I'm tired of the country life since the day that I was born
I'm going to join the Templars, and I'm off tomorrow morn.

(chorus)
Hoorah for the Saffron and the Blue, helmets glistening in the sun
Spear-points flash like sun-beams to the beating of a military drum
And no more shall I go harvesting, for to gather in the golden corn
For I've took the good Count's wheel and I'm off tomorrow morn

Well I'll leave behind my old smock coat and I'll leave behind me plough
And I'll leave behind me old dun ox, for I'll not need him now
There's a flag in dear old Helmbold floating proudly in the sky
And the watchword of our soldiers is "We'll conquer or we'll die"

There's just one thing that grieves my mind and that's my Nelly dear
And I hope that she'll be proud of me when I am far from here
And if ever I return again I'll let you all see me
As I take my Nelly to the shrine, a captain's wife to be.

Wheel: this may seem to imply that the Templars are given a bonus on joining. While this may happen on occasion, it seems likely that even then the cost of their equipment and uniform would be deducted from it at a later date.