COUNTDOWN TO LÜTZEN 3: THE FORETELLING

Pichi Pichi Pitch songs- these serve as an exposition...

Sung by the common people and the intelligentsia in the 1630s

 (Kodou)

When darkness and violence threaten the land, 

there is whispered a foretelling, 

that someone will come forth 

from the snows of the North 

to free all the oppressed...

We believed in hope and hope is at hand,

at the door of every dwelling...

On this sunlit morn the sun of a new dawn

from the midnight lands is blessed...

Hope in our hearts is rising...

he's come forth, he's come forth, he's come forth...

Come hither, light and freedom

from the North, from the North, from the North...

Come save us all...

Come free us all!

King Gustavus Adolphus, at the head of an army

from the North...

A leader so true and bold,

young against the League's commander so old...

Now a game-changing player into the war

is coming forth...

what legends will soon be told

about this young royal who breaks the mold?

The start of a new era,

a hero coming over from the cold!!

(Kizuna)

They burned Magdeburg to the ground,

then they threatened Halle and Leipzig with the same fate...

What else?

When the Catholic League was down,

at Breitenfeld rose a challenger to meet them...

The King!

With Sweden's higher technology,

the field they mastered, their victory

means that oppression is at an end,

that we'll be free!

With lighter cannons and cavalry,

with brand new improvised strategy,

he's won and he'll go down in history!!

From the North comes a beaming

beacon of light;

our hopes now arise to claim

what's ours by right...

Nevermore we'll be oppressed,

feelings rise within our chests,

the Kaiser's and the League's men take to flight...

From the streets of Leipzig to the Northern Sea, 

this autumn of 31 is for revelry! 

Hear the drinking song they sing, 

come and dance with us in ring,

raise a tankard to Sweden and the Hero King!