What Shall We Die For

Low soft booming percussion brings in a slowly building rendition of the "Hoist the Colours" C-Theme, starting out with just strings and brass. Then short strings start to add a bit of momentum to the piece, and soon strings join in the melody, followed by percussion. Suddenly it bursts into a rousing version of the theme, very heroic and excited.

It jumps up a key, and now the choir comes in, with the lyrics for "Hoist the Colours" fitting over the C-Theme quite nicely, building to a big dramatic ending, and taking us right into the next track.

=Lyrics=

''The King and his men stole the Queen from her bed

''And bound her in her bones.

''The seas be ours and by the powers

''Where we will, we'll roam.

''Yo ho, haul together, hoist the colours high

Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!