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I know it from the Clancy Brothers, Irish Songs of Rebellion [casette tape from old long play record]. Tom Izbicki At 05:45 PM 4/26/2000 -0400, you wrote: >I hope the learned members of this list can shed some >light on a question which barely justifies being called >medieval. I am familiar with a song (ballad?) beginning >"the minstral boy to the war is gone ..." which I THOUGHT >was the theme of the movie "The Man Who Would be King". >However, I recently saw the movie again, and while the >tune was as I had remembered the words were quite different, >at least in the final scene, where Sean Connery goes to >his death on a rope bridge (can't say I have read of this >form of martyrdom before.) Anyway, at that point in >the film, the words have become "the son of god to war >has gone" ... and ends up with something about those >who "follow in his name". Does anyone know whether there >is a hymn like this, or whether it is an invention for >the sake of the movie? >Margaret Cormack [log in to unmask] >Dept. of Philosophy and Religion fax: 843-953-6388 >College of Charleston tel: 843-953-8033 >Charleston, SC 29424-0001 > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%