[Verse 1] Raise your heavy tankards high! The bloody field is past! Though many brave companions fell, We see the stars at last! [Chorus] Raise your heavy tankards high! (Heavy tankards high!) Raise your heavy tankards high! We lived, we bled, we cried Raise your heavy tankards high! (High, high, high!) [Verse 2] The Red Field The mud is thick with fallen foes. The crows pick at the plain. My shield is split from edge to edge. The king counts up the slain. [Chorus] Raise your heavy tankards high! (Heavy tankards high!) Raise your heavy tankards high! We lived, we bled, we cried Raise your heavy tankards high! (High, high, high!) [Verse 3] The Close Call A giant swung a rusted axe. It sheared my horse in two. I caught his blade upon my mail. My own good steel ran true. [Bridge] The Return Home We walk back through the iron gates. The ale begins to flow. We drink to every ghost we left Upon the hills of snow. [Chorus] Raise your heavy tankards high! (Heavy tankards high!) Raise your heavy tankards high! We lived, we bled, we cried Raise your heavy tankards high! (High, high, high!)
