The Return of the Troubadour

(Instrumental intro)

When it comes to worldly news
There’s no need to explore
With all our modern media
Very hard to ignore
We are told by word and image
All this worldly news and more
Sometimes so graphically
You feel like an old ‘Voyeur’

(Instrumental motif)

Have you ever wondered
How it was in days of ‘yore’
When heard by word of mouth
Or a message to your door
It mattered not, your place in life
Or whether rich or poor
They gathered round and listened
To the words of the Troubadour

They were a special Guild of men
Known by the clothes they wore
Who came as wandering minstrels
Travelling from shore to shore
Telling affairs of State
All the gossip, news and more
In ballad, song and verse narrate
With the skill of a ‘Raconteur’

(Instrumental motif)


Without so many options
Back in those days of ‘Yore’
Perhaps with a homing pigeon
Or in a bottle washed ashore
A Troubadour would come around
Unless met force ’majeure’
For everyone relied on them
For news and the local ‘lore’

Now even in this modern world
What’s old, is new once more
For those with a tale to tell
Can sing it to a music score
And with this means of telling us
Bring the Herald to your door
For all those who wish to hear
The return of the Troubadour.

(Instrumental motif)


What’s old, is new once more
Bring this Herald to your door
For all those who wish to hear
The return of the Troubadour

(Instrumental outro)
Rodd Sherwin
to a composition by
Jeremy Wiliams

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