Alas! (My horse is gone)

Alas! Now my horse is gone, my sword has fled.
All I see is bottles now, my girl has run away.
Crossed the channel one day, but the capt. was already dead,
oh love, how I wanted you to stay.
I’ve known your mother, stabbed your brother.
Sun crashed down upon their farm,
but they did not seem to bother.
And when you chose no-one but the other,
I ran, went hiding me in the barn.
We saw no land, no rock, no trees,
only Frenchmen with sticks and bread,
and on their sticks my father’s head.
I RAN, I RAN, I RAN them down,
I looked at them with eyebrows frown.
Conquered the castle single-handed,
where or why was I, next to the throne I landed.
Now I own lovers and rivers, goats and sheep,
I build bridges where there once was a mighty leap.
But when I watch two bound souls walking,
and their faces move, the girl keeps right on talking;
I wonder to my heart if I could have known all this
right from the start?
Days we sat in shadow, together
we wept our fantasies apart.
Your pity came through,
soaked my boots of leather,
your carelessness struck me to the heart.