Willie-O's Song Challenge:  The way the contents of Áine's Mudcat Songbook are ordered, the first song listed is my ballad "1743", because the index puts numbered titles in sequence first, then alphabetizes the rest.  So here's my challenge: write a song about a year or event which preceded 1743 AD, (as far back as 1742 BC actually), entitle it accordingly, and knock me out of the top spot! I dare ya!

1066 by Amos

Come forth, come forth, ye Saxon theigns! 
Ye blue blooded heros many 
Stand up, stand up to William's hordes 
From Bogside to Boeny 

Your homes and sons and loving wives 
The tyrants will be wasting 
Come forth, bold churls, and armoured ride 
And meet us down at Hasting 

At Stanford Bridge, brave Harold's men 
Hadrada's force have smitten 
And now three hundred miles will march 
To Caldbec, it is written 

With long swords high the foe we will meet 
Our battle lines are forming, 
Be not misled by bold retreat, 
Beware the wiley Norman 

But Hastings grasses ran with blood 
Where Edwin's sons lay dying 
And Tostig's shades are standing there 
Where the Norman flag is flying 

Our fyrd and fleet all broken lie 
Their battle axes broken 
On Hastings field, by pennants high 
Cruel treachery is spoken 

Farewell to Wight, where Danish hordes 
Have burst our barriers through 
Weep long, you Saxon maidens fair 
For the men that William slew 

Now Angle men and Picts so bold, 
In flight and fear are calling 
The field is red with blood once true, 
And England fair has fallen.