Lyrics to the song: Deep into the stony hills Miles from town or hold A troop of guards comes riding With a lady and her gold She rides bemused among them Shrouded in her cloak of fur Companioned by a maiden And a toothless age-ed cur Three things see not end A flower blighted ere it bloom A message that miscarries And a journey that is doomed One among the guardsmen Has a shifting restless eye And as they ride he scans the hills That rise against the skies He wears both sword and jewels Worth more than he could afford And hidden in his baggage Is a heavy secret hoard Of three things be wary of A feather on a cat The shepherd eating mutton And the guardsman that is fat Little does the lady care What all the guardsmen know That bandits ambush caravans That on these trade roads go In spite of tricks and clever traps And all that men can do The brigands seem to always sense Which trains are false or true Three things are most perilous The shape that walks behind The ice that will not hold you And the spy you cannot find From ambush bandits screaming Charge the pack train and it's prize And all but four within the train Are taken by surprise And all but four are cut down As a woodsman fells a log The guardsmen and the lady And the maiden and the dog Three things hold a secret Lady riding in a dream The dog that sounds no warning And the maid who does not scream Then off the lady pulls her cloak In armor she is clad Her sword is out and ready and Her eyes are fierce and glad The maiden makes a gesture and The dog's a cur no more A wolf, swordmaiden and sorceress Now face the bandit horde Three things never anger Or you will not live for long A wolf with cubs A man with power And a woman's sense of wrong The lady and her sister By a single trader lone Were hired out to try to lay A trap all of their own And no one knew their plan except The two who rode that day For what you do not know You cannot ever give away Three things is it's better part That only two should know Where treasure hides, who shares your bed And how to catch your foe The bandits growl a challenge And the lady only grins The sorceress bows mockingly And them the fight begins When it ends there's only four Left standing from the horde The witch, the wolf, the traitor And the woman with the sword Three things never trust in A maiden sworn as pure The vows a kings has given And the ambush that is sure They strip the traitor naked And then whip him on his way Into the barren hill sides like The folk he used to slay And what of all the maidens That this bandit raped and slew So as revenge the sorceress Makes him a woman too Three things trust above all else The horse on which you ride The beast that guards your sleeping And the shield mate at your side

@darianchristie3260

8 жыл бұрын

+Edison Trent A toothless AGED cur... not sated! Not easy to eat with no teeth! :)

@edisontrent618

8 жыл бұрын

Are you sure? It really sounds like sated. It could be meaning a content and dopey acting dog, one that's being lazy. My dog acts like that all the time.

@edisontrent618

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I just listened to it at full blast, you can clearly hear the s, t and d of "sated". A "g" would really stand out in that.

@tonyburgoyne9614

7 жыл бұрын

"A wolf, swordmaiden and sorceress" I think this is just "A wolf, SwordMAID and sorceress", though I may be wrong

@advorak8529

5 жыл бұрын

"And hidden in his baggage // Is a heavy secret horde" I am pretty sure the traitor guardsman does not have a large group of people (or tribe warriors) in his baggage, no matter how heavy the baggage is. A store of valuable stuff (or money) hidden in his baggage -- a hoard -- fits the traitor guardsman much more. (see en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/horde vs. en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hoard )

I do think this is the superior version. Ow! Hey! Who just zapped me?!

@reddir

3 жыл бұрын

Have you heard kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJqFy9qsccS7gZc.html ? j/k I too like this best.

@paulthetyyppi

3 жыл бұрын

Take 3 is the best version.

@candiman4243

5 ай бұрын

@@paulthetyyppi naw, it's rev. 1.1, obviously

@fabiopaolobarbieri2286

2 күн бұрын

@@candiman4243 I vote for this one.

It took hearing this through a few times before I realised it's the sorceress, not the woman with the sword, who makes the traitor a woman. Seems much less of a punishment now.

@reddir

3 жыл бұрын

@cristianmontoya3149

3 жыл бұрын

Hee? Ho... *HOOOOOO* 😰

@djomega8462

3 жыл бұрын

He now has to live as a woman, and survive as one. And claiming he was once a man is likely to make him sound a bit mad - which will probably get him worse treatment. Just my thoughts on the matter.

@La-Volpa

2 жыл бұрын

Kethry (The Sorceress) did A LOT more than just make the traitor a woman. She placed a magical illusion on him and tied it to his own ability which use to make himself appear as someone who you trusted so long as they were alive and not in the area, but would now make him appear as a woman. He is then tied to a horse and sent after his fellow bandits who previously raped and killed several women and girls. He himself is raped repeatedly and gets so desperate to lift the illusion that he begs help from a powerful demon. The demon "helps" him by completely turning the traitor into a woman and enthralling him to serve the demon.

@skylark6167

2 жыл бұрын

@@La-Volpa Oh fuck, yeah that's certainly a punishment.

Great song, this is my favorite version!!

With a man singing this, it really sounds like that bard that wrote the song in the book...Tarma and Kethry would be pissed though

@darrenhenley2258

5 жыл бұрын

Oh yes. This is the version that spread to Valdemar.

@reddir

5 жыл бұрын

@@darrenhenley2258 Better than version 3... kzread.info/dash/bejne/a46DrcetnqidmpM.html

@guinevereeastes8519

4 жыл бұрын

actually, they would like this one better. it mentions that they were there because they were hired.

@mmp1346

4 жыл бұрын

@@guinevereeastes8519 This one mentions it too. The other one is more gruesome and changes who is the sorcerer and the fighter. In this one the lady on the horse is the fighter and the maiden the sorceress. The other one it's the other way around. Not sure which it is in the book, so which would be more accurate in that regard.

@MasterMind6225

4 жыл бұрын

This one has it backwards. Kethry (sorceress) was the lady, Tarma (swordswoman) was the maid. They even complain about it, among other mistakes, in one of the later chapters.

Whoa! I heard the version from Horse Tamer's Daughter, now this, and I can't decide which I like more :)

@MegaMementoMori

7 жыл бұрын

For me, it's this one! The punishment for the traitor is definitely more fun here :p

@horseenthusiast1250

6 жыл бұрын

Though his return and the drama with that demon who’s name I can’t remember was rather sad, I was biting my nails the whole time

@rkt739

6 жыл бұрын

I think it's funniest in "Threes: Take 3" (there sure are a lot of versions of this song) "The witch decides what shape the traitor's punishment will be (Her positive self-image is revealed for all to see!) The worst thing she can think of's not a newt or bat or toad She turns him into a woman and then sets him on the road"

@BaalsMistress

Жыл бұрын

For me, this will always be the definitive version.,

Love listening to Larry sing this.

@karakashin9415

6 жыл бұрын

Should be Larry Dixon.

"Sorry, neither" said Brienne... Could'nt resist the ST-GoT mashup ^⁠_⁠^

put Threes Mercedes Lackey in the search bar up top the version with lyrics will be the first one

Alright Mr. Zoat....you brought me here.

@RichardLeslieWhereat

7 жыл бұрын

And to The Sun is also a Warrior.

@AlexanderAzarov

7 жыл бұрын

I came across them years ago, when I was reading the Valdemar series last decade. I should give it a reread this decade too.

@AftermathRV

6 жыл бұрын

okay who is mr zoat? anyone who uses this song has prolyl gotten some itnerresting content :^)

@ghosty918

6 жыл бұрын

Zoat is the pseudonym of a British man who writes With This Ring. Basically, a guy (specifically a version of the writer set just before he planned to write the fiction and lacking the knowledge of Young Justice) appears on the Moon above Earth while wearing an Orange Power Ring (similar to a Green Power Ring owned by the Green Lanterns but using Avarice rather than Willpower). The universe he is in is Young Justice the tv show and a lot of other DC Comics stuff.

@ghosty918

6 жыл бұрын

Forgot to link. This is the Story-Only, you can probably get to the discussion from there using his signature at the end of each story post. The discussion would have people’s comments. forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/with-this-ring-young-justice-si-story-only.25076/

Alas, the purchase option is a 404 now.

Larry Warner, Kristoph Klover, Frank Hayes, Bill Roper, and Dominic Bridwell are all listed as performers on the official disc, but which - if any, because I don't know if this is the disc version - sang this?

@gnaskar

5 жыл бұрын

It sounds like Kristoph Klover to me, but I'm hardly an expert.

Another version, from the description it might (or not) be the original. It's sung by Julia Ecklar, w/ full lyrics in the description. I was curious so I searched for "threes song filk" and found this one... kzread.info/dash/bejne/m2F1zdSSldq3mbg.html

I have heard there is a book with this story in it. I thought that I have read ALL of these books, but do not recall 'this' story in any form but song. Please enlighten this old woman who can't find her glasses half the time, and sadly forgets wonderful written stories. Which book is the tale located? Thank you

@Plexiux

4 жыл бұрын

Its one of the ones with Tarma and Kethry, so its Oathbound, Oathbreaker or Oathblood. However, I do not know exactly which one it is.

@PantheraQueen

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know either, but I think it is the first Tarma and Kethrey book.

@elsalaiho1699

3 жыл бұрын

This story is told in Oathbound! Although from what I've heard, Lackey wrote this song first and then only later wrote the story of how it all "really" happened

@cristianmontoya3149

3 жыл бұрын

Wait this is a book? Welp time to buy it 7u7

@nekoeyes30

Жыл бұрын

it's in both oathbound and oathblood.

Is this Vic Tyler singing? Or Michael Longcor? Seriously thinking it's Tyler.

too bad this CD isn't available anymore. My copy was lost in moving, and I'm not able to replace it.

@2seekerx

4 жыл бұрын

Good reason for me not to ever move...

Do you still want the lyrics or did you get them?

Toss a con to your witcher can eat shit, this is class with a capital C

If not Julia, then who?

Well, Weyrd,

Who sang this anyway, like which band is behind the vocals?

@DarkTrooper458

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it's Larry Warner, I may be mistaken though.

@AftermathRV

3 жыл бұрын

@@DarkTrooper458 Oh my god iu didnt see this comment. Ill check it up soon TM youtube's "topic" system attributes it to round worm/ bob kanefsky, didnt listen to it, seems to be a different one tho

I thought this what about 40k

There's also a parody, but unfortunately I can't understand the lyrics as I'm french and it's sung too fast for me, I'll need a number of hearings to grok all the puns and fun... but I'm currently listening to all the versions I find ^-^ kzread.info/dash/bejne/aJqFy9qsccS7gZc.html

Ring, Make cake. Compliance.

Why does it say jewels instead of bracelets. Bracelet sounds so much better!

@edisontrent618

9 жыл бұрын

Snoozinghamster No, that wouldn't.

@Snoozinghamster

9 жыл бұрын

In my opinion it sound better with bracelets like in take one whereas jewels always sounds as though it is being stretched to fill the gap.

@edisontrent618

9 жыл бұрын

They both have the exact same metre... Jew-els Brace-lets Learn to poetry.

@Snoozinghamster

9 жыл бұрын

I'm not trying to get into an argument about poetry! I just think it weird how the words where changed from both the book and the other version of this song to something which does feel more strained in my opinion. Going from a word which is two syllable - bracelet to one which is one syllable- jewels

@edisontrent618

9 жыл бұрын

"Going from a word which is two syllable - bracelet to one which is one syllable- jewels" Jewel is two syllables. Pronounced joo-uhl. If you don't even know what you're talking about, please stop. By the way, if you are ever talking about the metre of a song, then you are talking about the metre of the poem that is then set to music. All songs are poetry with musical accompaniment. That's how music was invented.

so..... is there any reason the the warrior and the sorcerous didn't try to save the that didn't betray them? seems like a dick move to me.

@spellboundprince9748

6 жыл бұрын

Jo_Tunn they didn't know who the traitor was and the only way to figure out who betrayed the rest was to see who the bandits left standing after their attack.

@Braxgar

6 жыл бұрын

so yeah, a dick move. and that's probably putting it mildly.

@spellboundprince9748

6 жыл бұрын

Jo_Tunn no it wasn't if they didn't find out who thr traitor was then people would have kept dying. The sacrifice of the few for the many.

@Braxgar

6 жыл бұрын

did they even try investigating or did they go straight to the kill them all and the gods sort it out plan?

@spellboundprince9748

6 жыл бұрын

Jo_Tunn Of course they did.

Q-ships be like ^-^