Part 3: The Mud & The Thorn (V6)

[General prompt: Complex progressive rock, time signature changes (7/8, 4/4). Folk intro with electric lute. Large orchestra in the background. Alternating guitar and flute solos.] [Verse 1 – English peasant - Acoustic guitar, then heavy riff] Wat Tyler’s hand on the gate of the Tower We asked for air, they gave us a shower of arrows (No more villeinage!) [Verse 2 – French Jacques - Driving, angry, bass heavy] Guillaume Cale, with a blackthorn stick The nobles’ heads make a fine new brick (They sowed the wind – we reaped the neck!) [Verse 3 – German peasant - Slow, marching, like a funeral hymn] Twelve articles nailed to the church door The Swabian League can eat our poor (We are not dogs!) [Verse 4 – Liège craftsmen - Syncopated, almost jazzy, then explosion] Thirty-two trades against the prince-bishop’s ring Our hammers make a parliament of the common thing (Chorus) [Full orchestra, choir screaming] (From Kent to Alsace, from the Meuse to the Rhine!) We are the mud, but the thorn is mine The lords write history – we write the ditch But every ditch is a seed, and every seed a stitch [Guitar solo – chaotic, feedback, then a melodic prog break] [Outro : Bell tolling, fading choir] ...They burned us. But the rye still grows.