[Verse 1]
The fields of Green Meadow rolled wide and still
With banners snapping in the wind
Men stood ready with shield and spear
For the first great fight to begin
For years the dragons ruled the sky
And every battle ended the same
Till a steam-scarred airship crossed the clouds
The Baywhar Babe by name.
[Verse 2]
Donna held to the iron wheel
While the boilers shook below
David cursed in the engine room
Where the dying fires burned low
And Richard stood by the harpoon guns
With Mark at the second rail
Watching dark wings gather fast
Like a thunder rolling gale.
[Chorus]
High above Green Meadow field
Where the war horns cried below
Steel and steam against the sky
Where the wyvern riders rode
And the soldiers swore the clouds caught flame
From the guns of the Baywhar Babe
Holding back the dragon’s horde
So the free men could be brave.
[Verse 3]
The harpoons roared like thunder cracks
Iron chains through scale and hide
One by one the riders fell
Spinning down the windy side
The wyverns shrieked and wheeled away
Their masters tumbling from the sky
And hope began to stir below
Where the waiting armies cried.
[Verse 4]
But pride runs hot in dragon men
And soon the riders turned again
Claw and fang through smoke and steam
With screaming hate and iron grin
They swarmed the ship from every side
Till sky and sun were lost from sight
And the Baywhar Babe was swallowed whole
In a storm of wings and fight.
[Chorus]
High above Green Meadow field
Where the war horns cried below
Steel and steam against the sky
Where the wyvern riders rode
And the soldiers swore the clouds went black
Round the battered Baywhar Babe
Holding back the dragon’s horde
So the free men could be brave.
[Verse 5]
The guns fell silent on the rails
When the claws came crashing in
Richard drew his battered blade
And Mark stood back to back with him
Steel rang wild on saddle mail
While wings beat hard against the mast
And blood ran down the deck boards slick
As the sky war thundered past.
[Verse 6]
Donna fought against the rail
With a broken harpoon spear
Holding off the lunging beasts
That clawed and shrieked around her there
Till David climbed from the engine hold
With a shattered steam pipe in his hand
Burning iron and hissing fire
Like lightning from the land.
[Bridge]
Steam screamed white across the deck
Scalding wings and blinding eyes
Wyverns shrieked and riders fell
As David drove them from the skies
Richard roared and Mark struck hard
Donna turned the wheel again
And the guns came back to life
With thunder over wind.
[Final Chorus]
High above Green Meadow field
Where the first free banners flew
The wyvern riders broke and fled
When the roaring harpoons blew
And the armies cheered the clearing sky
As the battered Baywhar Babe
Still held the wind above the war
And the day of freedom came.
ElCeviche
